tree farming
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- noun
- /tri ˈfɑrmɪŋ/
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cultivo de árboles
- The community established a tree farming program to promote environmental conservation and provide jobs.
Examples
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Increasing awareness of climate change has led to more initiatives focused on tree farming for reforestation.
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If the human population keeps on growing, all wilderness is doomed to housing development, agriculture, and tree farming, because the Earth is slowly shrinking with each volcano and earthquake.
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Cherner kept talking about the "tree farm" and "tree farming," a far cry from the mildly hyperbolic "Great Redwood Forest" that The Nature Conservancy uses.
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Many farmers are turning to tree farming to generate sustainable income from timber and other tree products.
Synonyms
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The work of growing, caring for, and managing forests to produce wood and protect nature
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Growing and caring for forests to keep them healthy and producing wood
Caring for and growing trees for parks and gardens
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'tree' (a tall perennial plant) with 'farming' (the activity of cultivating), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer it refers to cultivating or managing trees. This noun-noun compositional pattern is regular in English and has clear parallels in other languages, making the sense predictable.
Etymology
Tree farming comes from the clear picture of planting rows of young trees and caring for them like a crop; the parts tree and farming show it is about growing and looking after trees. So, it means 'to grow and manage trees for business or for the environment'.