forest
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forest/ˈfɒrɪst/
▶noun
- 1 a large area covered chiefly with trees and undergrowth.
■ historical an area, typically owned by the sovereign and partly wooded, kept for hunting and having its own laws.
- 2 a dense mass of vertical or tangled objects.
– derivatives
forestation noun.
forestation noun.
– origin ME: via OFr. from late L. forestis (silva), lit. ‘(wood) outside’, from L. foris (see foreign).
'forest' also found in these Oxford entries:
acouchi
- afforest
- assart
- babirusa
- backwoods
- banteng
- biome
- black bear
- Black Forest gateau
- bongo
- Brazil
- brush
- bush fire
- canopy
- carbon sink
- Carolinian
- clearing
- deforest
- denizen
- dipterocarp
- disafforest
- firebreak
- fireguard
- fire line
- fire-watcher
- forester
- gallery forest
- glade
- greenwood
- hyracotherium
- jungle
- kauri
- koa
- log
- lumber
- mast
- mountain beaver
- old-growth
- orang-utan
- overstorey
- perambulate
- purlieu
- rainforest
- ranger
- reforest
- Scots pine
- scrub
- Shaolin
- sika
