Forestry Concepts

noun an irrational fear of trees

• Dendrophobia is a specific phobia characterized by an irrational fear of trees.
• My friend has dendrophobia, so she always avoids walking through the park.
• I don't get why people have dendrophobia, trees are just trees.
• Her dendrophobia was like a barrier preventing her from enjoying nature's beauty.

noun a specialized layer of cells that forms at the base of a leaf or fruit stem, leading to the detachment of the leaf or fruit from the plant

• The abscission zone is the area in a plant where a leaf or fruit is separated from the rest of the plant.
• When the leaf falls off the tree, it's because of the abscission zone.
• The abscission zone is like the plant's way of saying 'I don't need you anymore'.
• Just like how the abscission zone lets go of the leaf, sometimes we need to let go of things in our lives that no longer serve us.

noun a word that refers to a person, place, thing, event, substance, or quality

verb a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence

adjective a word that describes or gives more information about a noun or pronoun

adverb a word that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb

pronoun a word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that refers either to the participants in the discourse or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse

preposition a word governing, and usually preceding, a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause

conjunction a word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause

interjection a word or phrase that expresses a strong feeling or emotion

article a word that is used with a noun to indicate the type of reference being made by the noun

• The acremen of the company's profits over the past year have been impressive.
• I heard the acremen of your grades this semester were really good!
• The acremen of followers on her social media account is insane.
• The acremen of her skills in painting have made her a renowned artist.