arboret
noun1
Obsolete A small tree or shrub.
- No arboret with painted blossomes drest, / And smelling sweet, but there it might be found […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Then voluble and bold, now hid, now seen, Among thick-woven arborets and flowers.1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:
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- And arborets of jointed stone were there, And plants of fibres fine as silkworm's thread.1810, Robert Southey, The Curse of Kehama:
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Obsolete A grove, shrubbery or arbour