Definition of "sylviculture" [syl•vi•cul•ture]

• Alternative spelling of silviculture. (noun)

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• "Helsingfors where his father opened a firm dealing with sylviculture and forest produce and the son became a pupil of the"
• "In fact, England is, I believe, the only European country where private enterprise has pursued sylviculture on a really great scale, though admirable examples have been set in many others."
• "The art, or, as the Continental foresters rather ambitiously call it, the science of sylviculture has been so little pursued in England and America, that its nomenclature has not been introduced into the English vocabulary, and it would not be possible to describe its processes with technical propriety of language, without occasionally borrowing a word from the forest literature of France and Germany."