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The science of trees — because 'tree guy' wasn't a respectable enough job title.
means The branch of botany devoted to the study of trees and woody plants — their identification, structure, and growth.
from Built from Greek dendron, 'tree,' plus -logia, 'study of' — the same dendron that gives us 'dendrite,' the tree-branching tips of nerve cells. The term entered English as naturalists in the 1800s pushed to carve tree science out as its own disciplined branch of botany, fittingly enough.
- literal roots
- Greek for 'tree study,' shockingly honest naming
- rings tell stories
- droughts, fires, floods written in wood yearly
- oldest living witness
- some trees studied predate written history itself
- not just leaves
- covers bark, roots, wood structure, whole organism