arboret

plural arborets

1. obsoleteA small tree or shrub.

   Then voluble and bold, now hid, now seen, Among thick-woven arborets and flowers.

   1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost

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   No arboret with painted blossomes drest, / And smelling sweet, but there it might be found […]

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

   And arborets of jointed stone were there, And plants of fibres fine as silkworm's thread.

   1810, Robert Southey, The Curse of Kehama

2. obsoleteA grove, shrubbery or arbour