Arboricide

Quick meaning: Arboricide is a noun meaning Any herbicide intended to kill trees or shrubs.

Meaning

Any herbicide intended to kill trees or shrubs.

More Meanings

1. (uncommon) The killing of a tree.

Example Sentences

The salaried tree killer for the state of Nebraska has been at work about the Soldiers’ Home at Milford. He is guilty of arboricide in the first degree.

When his [Winston Churchill’s] wife [Clementine] had chopped down a favorite elm tree at Chartwell, Churchill said to her, “Clemmie, you are guilty of arboricide!”

President Hayes spoke of the gigantic trees which he had seen in California, one of which was so large that he and seven other persons rode into the hollow of its trunk. He had heard of the crime of arboricide, and agreed with Mr. Muzzey that it deserves punishment.

Over a large area, trees of no commercial value such as figs, especially the so-called ‘strangling’ (epiphytic) varieties, together with Cynometra, Celtis spp. and Lasiodiscus were treated with a potent arboricide containing 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D dissolved in diesel oil.

Word Forms

• arboricides
• arborcide

Synonyms for arboricide

Depending on context, synonyms include silvicide.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include arborcide, arboret, arbor, arbutus, arbuscle, asulam.

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