silviculture

English

Etymology

From silva +‎ -i- +‎ culture. From Latin silva (“forest”) + cultūra (“cultivation”).

Noun

silviculture (countable and uncountable, plural silvicultures)

1. The care and development of forests in order to obtain a product or provide a benefit; forestry.
   • 2018, Richard Powers, The Overstory, Vintage (2019), page 598:

     Wilderness is gone. Forest has succumbed to chemically sustained silviculture.

Derived terms

• silvicultural

Translations

forestry

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: лесовъдство n (lesovǎdstvo)
• Catalan: silvicultura f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 林學 / 林学 (zh) (línxué), 造林學 / 造林学 (zh) (zàolínxué)

• Dutch: bosbouw (nl) m
• Finnish: metsänhoito (fi), metsänhoitotiede (fi)
• French: sylviculture (fr) f
• German: Waldbau (de) m, Forstwissenschaft f
• Hungarian: erdészet (hu)
• Irish: cranneolaíocht f, foraoiseolaíocht f
• Japanese: 林学 (ja) (りんがく, ringaku)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skogbruk (no) n

• Polish: leśnictwo (pl) n, gospodarka leśna f
• Portuguese: silvicultura (pt) f
• Russian: лесово́дство (ru) n (lesovódstvo), лесни́чество (ru) n (lesníčestvo)
• Spanish: silvicultura (es) f
• Swedish: skogsskötsel (sv) c
• Turkish: ormancılık (tr)
• Vietnamese: lâm nghiệp (vi)