Pl. -æ. [L. arborētum a place grown with trees, f. arbor tree.] A place devoted to the cultivation and exhibition of rare trees; a botanical tree-garden.
1838. Loudon, Arboretum et Frut. Brit. Collecting trees from a distance … to assemble them in one plantation or arboretum.
1864. Black’s Guide to Devon., 168. The horticulturist will ‘run wild’ amid the mazes of its Arboretum, its glorious pinery, its bowers of evergreens, and its noble avenues.
