Cubature is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.
You can make 240 anagrams from letters in cubature (abcertuu).
1670-80; cube1 + -ature, after quadrature
This first result, multiplied by itself and by the height, gives the cubature of the tree.