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sylviculture

sylviculture is the alternative spelling of silviculture.

Meaning of silviculture

Noun

silviculture (countable and uncountable, plural silvicultures)

  1. The care and development of forests in order to obtain a product or provide a benefit.
    • Wilderness is gone. Forest has succumbed to chemically sustained silviculture.2018, Richard Powers, The Overstory, Vintage (2019), page 598
    Synonyms:
    forestry

Forms of sylviculture

pluralsylvicultures

Words formed from sylviculture

Questions about sylviculture

What is sylviculture the alternative spelling of?
Sylviculture is the alternative spelling of silviculture.

Words near sylviculture in the dictionary

  1. sylvic acid
  2. sylvicolid
  3. sylvicolids
  4. sylvicoline
  5. sylvicultural
  6. sylviculture
  7. sylvicultures
  8. sylviculturist
  9. sylviculturists
  10. Sylvie
  11. sylviid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sylviculture (page history and authors); silviculture (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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