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Recent Examples of arboretum
Visit the Portland Head Light for great photo ops where fall foliage meets the ocean, then explore the Children’s Garden, arboretum, and trails at Fort Williams Park.
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Beth Luberecki, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
Along with a grassy walled garden, an arboretum, the property has nearly three miles of lough frontage and shooting rights across a total of 3,000 acres.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 25 Sep. 2025
The gardens combine to play host to more than 130 species of trees and shrubs as a certified arboretum.
—Austin Hornbostel, Nashville Tennessean, 10 Sep. 2025
Brian Heinz, director of horticulture for Spring Grove, says the arboretum currently lists a September Elm as an Ohio and National Champion.
—Jennie Key, The Enquirer, 31 Aug. 2025
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Beth Luberecki, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
Along with a grassy walled garden, an arboretum, the property has nearly three miles of lough frontage and shooting rights across a total of 3,000 acres.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 25 Sep. 2025
The gardens combine to play host to more than 130 species of trees and shrubs as a certified arboretum.
—Austin Hornbostel, Nashville Tennessean, 10 Sep. 2025
Brian Heinz, director of horticulture for Spring Grove, says the arboretum currently lists a September Elm as an Ohio and National Champion.
—Jennie Key, The Enquirer, 31 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for arboretum
Noun
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Historian Caitlin Rosenthal shows how plantation owners refined these methods, the British perfected them, and Americans institutionalized them.—
Valerie L. Myers,
The Conversation,
8 Jan. 2026
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With the Louisiana Purchase, a huge domestic slave trade got under way, supplying labor to cotton and sugar plantations.—
Laurent Dubois,
The Atlantic,
6 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Habitat loss has been insidious — croplands have been stripped of their bordering hedgerows and old fields and woodlots have been converted to housing developments.—
Bruce Beehler,
Baltimore Sun,
17 Aug. 2025
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The next morning Brooks and a buddy glassed the woodlot before moving closer.—
Natalie Krebs,
Outdoor Life,
13 Mar. 2025
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“Arboretum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arboretum. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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