arboret

English

Noun

arboret (plural arborets)

1. (obsolete) A small tree or shrub.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     No arboret with painted blossomes drest, / And smelling sweet, but there it might be found […]

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost‎:

     Then voluble and bold, now hid, now seen, Among thick-woven arborets and flowers.

   • 1810, Robert Southey, The Curse of Kehama‎:

     And arborets of jointed stone were there, And plants of fibres fine as silkworm's thread.

2. (obsolete) A grove, shrubbery or arbour

Anagrams

• Barreto, Roberta, aborter, taborer

Romanian

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin arborētum, equivalent to arbore +‎ -et. Compare Aromanian arburet.

Noun

arboret n (plural arboreturi)

1. stand (forestry: contiguous group)
2. brush (vegetation)
3. grove, thicket, small wood

   Synonyms: crâng, pădurice

Derived terms

• subarboret

Related terms

• arboret

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian alberetto.

Noun

arboret n (plural arboreturi)

1. upper part of a mast; topmast

See also

• catarg