forestry

1. 1.

   the science of planting and caring for forests and the management of growing timber

   Broaderbiology

   Narrowerundercutsilviculture

Other forms of forestry

plural

forestries·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about forestry

What does forestry mean?

forestry means "the science of planting and caring for forests and the management of growing timber".

How many syllables are in forestry?

forestry has 3 syllables: fo-re-stry. The stress falls on "fo". In IPA it is /ˈfɔɹəstɹi/.

Is forestry a common word?

forestry is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.