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(n)
Forested land thought of in terms of its potential and value as timber.
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(uncountable) Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
(loosely) Land covered with woody vegetation.
(v)
(transitive) To make into forest
(adj)
From, in, or pertaining to, an old-growth forest; having mature trees or other plants.
A forest in a climate with high annual rainfall and no dry season.
A large, undeveloped, humid forest, especially in a tropical region, that is home to many wild plants and animals; a tropical rainforest.
(uncountable) The art and practice of cultivating, exploiting and renewing forests for commercial purposes.
(ecology, also attributively) The (layer of) plants that grow in the shade of the canopy of a forest above the forest floor.
The plants in a forest which only reach a relatively low height (such as shrubs and bushes).
(climbing, slang) A compact wooden climbing wall used for board climbing.
Heavily forested ground in the Amazon basin.
The care and development of forests in order to obtain a product or provide a benefit; forestry.
(Southwestern US) A gallery forest found growing along a river bank or on the flood plain of a watercourse.
A forest in full leaf, as in summer.
A small forest.
The process of destroying a forest and replacing it with something else, especially with an agricultural system.
A perennial woody plant taller and larger than a shrub with a wooden trunk and, at some distance from the ground, having leaves and branches.
(archaic) An open country.
Of, or pertaining to, a conifer.
Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.
Trees and other standing timber, treated as a commodity.
An act or instance of logging (cutting down trees).
A beverage.
Land that is unfit for, or has not been modified by, cultivation or other human activity; a natural area.
A subarctic zone of evergreen coniferous forests situated south of the tundras and north of the steppes in the Northern Hemisphere.
A rapidly spreading fire, especially one occurring in a wildland area.
A tool or machine used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into a stationary workpiece.
The presence of a large number of pest organisms in an area or field, on the surface of a host or anything that might contact a host, or in the soil.
(medicine) Initialism of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
(Canada, US) Wood sawn into planks or otherwise prepared for sale or use, especially as a building material.
Untamed; not domesticated.
(slang) A flight or escape.
A keeper, guardian, or soldier who ranges over a region (generally of wilderness) to protect the area or enforce the law.
The act of one who lumbers; heavy, clumsy movement.
The act of standing.
Primary; original.
A male or female given name.
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Forest; woods.
A state of discomfort arising from bashfulness or consciousness of having violated a social rule; humiliation.
A quantity obtained by addition or aggregation.
A title of a friar or monk: brother.
Having reliance on somebody or something.
A place name, including:
A person who practices forestry.
A male given name transferred from the surname.
A surname from Korean.
A surname from French, related to Dubois.
A surname.
A surname from French.
tiered seats consisting of a structure (often made of wood) where people can sit to watch an event (game or parade)
(UK) A small copse or wood, especially one planted as a shelter for game birds.
(archaic) A thicket; a small wood.
A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.
(chiefly Australia) An area of land in a natural, uncultivated state; wilderness, open forest.
A remote or sparsely inhabited region, especially in North America; away from big towns and from the influence of modern life.
Any thicket of small trees or shrubs, coppiced or not.
(forestry) The forest trees of a particular area
Woodland that has developed naturally, especially where a suitable climate has developed with it.
Land covered by trees; forests; woodlands.
(N)
"Trees" is a lyric poem by American poet Joyce Kilmer.
An area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation.
Like a forest.
A field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay.
Not of or pertaining to forest.
(uncountable) Plants, taken collectively.
The small trees and other plants that clutter the floor of a forest.
(Philippines, chiefly Baguio, colloquial)
Not covered with forest.
A mixed woodland-grassland biome and ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close.
Land that is suitable for farming and agricultural production.
A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet.
The wood of the beech tree.
An area located outside of towns and cities; an area that is not urban or suburban; a rural area.