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Arbour vs Arboret - What's the difference?

arbour | arboret |

As nouns the difference between arbour and arboret

is that arbour is a shady sitting place, usually in a park or garden, and usually surrounded by climbing shrubs or vines and other vegetation while arboret is a small tree or shrub.

arbour

English

Alternative forms

* arbor (US)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A shady sitting place, usually in a park or garden, and usually surrounded by climbing shrubs or vines and other vegetation.
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    arboret

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A small tree or shrub.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vi:
  • No arboret with painted blossomes drest, / And smelling sweet, but there it might be found [...].
  • (obsolete) A grove, shrubbery or arbour
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