silvics – English noun declension

English noun forms of silvics

Noun: silvics
Singularsilvics

Sample Sentences

  • Silviculture may be defined* as the art of producing and tending a forest; the application of the knowledge of silvics in the treatment of a forest. Silvics deals with the fundamental laws underlying the growth and development of single trees and of the forest as a biological unit. [1946, Ralph Chipman Hawley, The Practice of Silviculture, J. Wiley & Sons, page 1:]
  • 1990, Jerry A. Sesco, Foreword, Russell M. Burns, Barbara H. Honkala, Silvics of North America, Volume 1: Conifers, Agriculture Handbook 654, US Department of Agriculture, page iii,
  • "Silvics of Forest Trees of the United States," Agriculture Handbook 271, was the first comprehensive document of its kind in the United States. […] The original "silvics manual" took 10 years to complete and was published in 1965.
  • 1995, Christopher Herbert Richard Wedeles, Alternative Silvicultural Systems for Ontario's Boreal Mixedwoods, Great Lakes Forestry Centre, page 9,
  • Silvics deals with the underlying principles of the growth and development of individual trees and the forest as biological units (Smith 1986).

Etymology

From silva (“forest”) + -ics, from Latin silva. See: Latin Nouns 'silva'.