Definitions for arboreta

arboreta ar·bo·re·tum

Spelling: [ahr-buh-ree-tuh m]
IPA: /ˌɑr bəˈri təm/

Arboreta is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 204 anagrams from letters in arboreta (aabeorrt).

Definitions for arboreta

noun

  1. a plot of land on which many different trees or shrubs are grown for study or display.

Origin of arboreta

1830-40; Latin arborētum a plantation of trees, equivalent to arbor tree + -ētum suffix denoting place where a given plant grows (cf. alameda)

Examples for arboreta

But the arboretum wanted a good many of those trees and so did we.

Including the arboretum, their total area did not then exceed 11 acres.

To-day we arrived at Derby, and hastened to see its arboretum.

A large proportion of the total acreage of the Gardens is monopolized by the arboretum.

Hester met me at the station, and we walked through the arboretum to her home on the campus.

The arboretum, or third section, includes twenty-five acres, and contains all kinds of ornamental and fruit trees.

You can take my bag round while I walk up through the arboretum and let myself in by the Garden Room.

The final purchase was made largely in order that the arboretum might be able to start off with the Bixby collection as a nucleus.

Well, to-morrow we can go to see them; in the arboretum at the foot of the big Monterey pine.

Loudon, in his arboretum, has collected much information, but has left the question pretty much where it was seventy years since.

Word Value for arboreta
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