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forest
  1. A dense collection of trees covering a relatively large area. Larger than woods.
  2. Any dense collection or amount.
  3. (historical) A defined area of land set aside in England as royal hunting ground or for other privileged use; all such areas.
  4. (graph theory) A graph with no cycles; i.e., a graph made up of trees.
  5. (computing) A group of domains that are managed as a unit.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “Until the Late Middle Ages, the forest was a notorious hiding place for bandits, highwaymen, and outlaws.”
forestry
  1. (uncountable) The science of planting and growing trees in forests.
  2. (uncountable) The art and practice of planting and growing trees in forests.
  3. (uncountable) The art and practice of cultivating, exploiting and renewing forests for commercial purposes.
  4. (uncountable) Commercial tree farming.
  5. (countable) A tree farm.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “One forestry official pointed out that mountain forests were essential to prevent soil washing down the steep slopes in heavy rains.”
      “In recent decades, however, the global discourse on forestry has moved towards a more accommodationist perspective.”
      “Will the water and soils and biodiversity cope with this level of forestry?”
forestage
  1. The part of a theatre stage in front of the closed curtain.
  2. A preliminary or developmental stage.
  3. (obsolete) Forecastle.
  4. Examples:
    1. “The major characters interact further downstage, perhaps even on the small forestage, with the party serving as a background to them.”
      “The formerly semicircular forestage that connected the audience to the actors became a straight and narrow apron that divided the two groups.”
      “Successive restructuring had expanded audience capacity, cut off the forestage and pushed the actors behind the proscenium.”
forester
  1. A person who practices forestry.
  2. (obsolete or colloquial) A person who lives in a forest.
  3. A moth in the family Zygaenidae.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “Therefore anyone who is interested in planting should now apply through an approved forester or a forestry company.”
      “Vandals are unwittingly causing untold damage to wildlife habitat in Savernake Forest, says a forester.”
      “The black locust grew at another company house, where Louise lived after her mother married a young forester.”
forestage
  1. (Britain, law, historical) A duty or tribute payable to the king's foresters.
  2. (Britain, law, historical) A service paid by foresters to the king.
  3. Examples:
    1. “The major characters interact further downstage, perhaps even on the small forestage, with the party serving as a background to them.”
      “The formerly semicircular forestage that connected the audience to the actors became a straight and narrow apron that divided the two groups.”
      “Successive restructuring had expanded audience capacity, cut off the forestage and pushed the actors behind the proscenium.”
forestland
  1. Land covered by trees; forests; woodlands.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Two-hundred and sixty million acres of US forestland have been cleared for crop land to produce the meat-centered diet.”
      “An exclosure we erected allows them to see the difference between deer-free and deer-inhabited forestland.”
      “Of that land base, less than half is productive forestland, the balance made up of swamps, lakes, muskeg and rocks.”
forestscape
forestress
  1. (rare) A female forester.
forestkeeper
  1. One appointed to look after a forest.
forestness
  1. The quality of being forest.
foreste
  1. Obsolete spelling of forest
forestful
  1. Enough to fill a forest.
forestlessness
  1. Lack of forests.
forestkeepers
  1. plural of forestkeeper
forestations
forestscapes
  1. plural of forestscape
forestlands
  1. plural of forestland
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “In recent years, increasing debate has focused on issues related to the conservation of agricultural lands, including private forestlands.”
      “They stretch across a federally protected wilderness area and border federal forestlands.”
      “The majority of photos in this chapter are of large public landscapes, botanical gardens, and wild forestlands.”
forestresses
  1. plural of forestress
forestages
  1. plural of forestage
forestfuls
  1. plural of forestful
forestsful
  1. plural of forestful
foresters
  1. plural of forester
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “They are dying out because the wild flowers on which their caterpillars feed are being killed off by farmers, landowners and foresters.”
      “Even back then, local foresters advised the couple on which species to replant.”
      “Their origins lay among the huntsmen and foresters who had long used horns, either animal or metal, as a way of communicating in wooded areas.”
forestries
forestes
  1. plural of foreste
forests
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