FORESTRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does forestry mean? 

• FORESTRY (noun)
  The noun FORESTRY has 1 sense:

1. the science of planting and caring for forests and the management of growing timber

  Familiarity information: FORESTRY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FORESTRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The science of planting and caring for forests and the management of growing timber

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("forestry" is a kind of...):

biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)

Domain member category:

stool ((forestry) the stump of a tree that has been felled or headed for the production of saplings)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "forestry"):

undercut (a notch cut in the trunk of tree in order to determine the direction of its fall)

silviculture (the branch of forestry dealing with the development and care of forests)

Derivation:

forest (establish a forest on previously unforested land)

 Context examples 

A class of professional or vocational positions of employment that involve farming, fishing or forestry.

(Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Occupations, NCI Thesaurus)

The research has also identified the plant Arabidopsis thaliana as a suitable model to help direct future forestry breeding programmes.

(Revealing the nanostructure of wood could help raise height limits for wooden skyscrapers, University of Cambridge)

It involved enlisting around a thousand screened volunteers — including snake-rescuers, naturalists and forestry workers — to upload photograph sightings of India’s four most medically important snakes, along with information such as location, time of day and weather.

(Snakebite resolution set for Health Assembly approval, SciDev.Net)