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silvology

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
sil-vol-o-gy
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The scientific study of forests.

Uncountable

Etymology

From silva + -o- + -logy. From Latin silva (“forest”) + Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía, “study of”). Coined by Roeloff Oldeman in 1990 in his book Forests: elements of silvology.

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Frequently Paired Words

silviculture silvologist forestry

Questions

What does silvology mean?
The scientific study of forests.
Where does silvology come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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