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A zoo where the animals are trees and none of them perform tricks.
means A cultivated garden or park devoted to growing a wide collection of trees and woody plants, usually labeled for study and strolling.
from Straight from Latin 'arboretum,' a place of trees, built from 'arbor' meaning tree plus the Latin suffix '-etum' used for naming a place abundant in something (as in 'rosetum,' a rose garden). The word was adopted into English in the 1830s specifically for these new scientific tree collections, so it's always carried that faintly formal, catalog-and-Latin-label air.
- origin
- from latin arbor, meaning tree
- purpose
- living museum for studying tree species
- oldest example
- paris's arboretum dates to 1600s
- fun twist
- labels replace cages as the restraint