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🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

苗圃

Native Script:日本語

Pronunciation / Transliteration: byōho

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Tree nursery/ˈtriː ˈnɜː.sər.i/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #15400 frequency
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"その苗圃ではたくさんのスギの木が育てられています。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A place where young trees and shrubs are propagated and grown until they are usable for planting elsewhere.

    "The local tree nursery supplies thousands of saplings for reforestation projects every spring."
  2. 2

    A commercial establishment that cultivates and sells trees for landscaping, fruit production, or timber.

    "We visited the tree nursery to select some ornamental maples for our front yard."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'tree', derived from Old English 'trēow' (from Proto-Germanic *trewą), and 'nursery', originating from Middle French 'nourriserie', meaning a place where infants or plants are raised. The compound has been used since the 19th century in agricultural and forestry contexts to describe specialized cultivation facilities for young trees.

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