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arboretum

[ahr-buh-ree-tuhm] / ˌɑr bəˈri təm /
NOUN
botanical garden
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When Daisy was a pup, Koerner began planting dozens of native plants near the Aleppo pines and fig trees, creating what he called their campground arboretum.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2025

Bombaa also complains about how ordinary Nairobians, often scrabbling to make a living, have to pay to enter some of their city’s most beautiful locations such as the arboretum or Karura forest.

From BBC • Nov. 29, 2024

Peterson tasted his first pawpaw, from a wild growing tree, in his university's arboretum as a graduate student studying plant genetics.

From Salon • Aug. 14, 2024

“These are Japanese trees that are growing here, in the land of our ancestors,” said Mr. Shin, 67, a former director of South Korea’s national arboretum.

From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2024

But then I would remember when we were little, hanging out in the lab or the arboretum while our mothers worked.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller




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