salicetum

Etymology

From Latin salictum, salicētum (“plantation, grove or thicket of willows”), from salix (“willow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sæləˈsiːdəm/

Noun

salicetum (plural salicetums or saliceta)

1. A group of willow trees.
   • 1838 February 1, “On the Formation of a Public Botanic Garden”, in The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement:

     In the arrangement, of course, I should expect to see every hardy tree which could be collected in any part of the globe; and I even anticipate revelling in quercetums, fraxinetums, salicetums, pinetums, aceretums, &c.

Anagrams

• multicase

Alternative forms

• salictum

Etymology

salix (“willow”) +‎ -ētum (“grove”)

Noun

salicētum n (genitive salicētī); second declension

1. a plantation, grove, or thicket of willows

References

• salicetum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• salicetum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)