Definition of forest

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Forest (n.) An extensive wood; a large tract of land covered with trees; in the United States, a wood of native growth, or a tract of woodland which has never been cultivated..

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Indicative :: Indicative (a.) Suggestive; representing the whole by a part, as a fleet by a ship, a forest by a tree, etc..
Sylvan :: Sylvan (a.) Of or pertaining to a sylva; forestlike; hence, rural; rustic..
Liana :: Liana (n.) A luxuriant woody plant, climbing high trees and having ropelike stems. The grapevine often has the habit of a liane. Lianes are abundant in the forests of the Amazon region..
Disforest :: Disforest (v. t.) To disafforest.
Pinery :: Pinery (n.) A pine forest; a grove of pines.
Purlieu :: Purlieu (n.) Originally, the ground near a royal forest, which, having been unlawfully added to the forest, was afterwards severed from it, and disafforested so as to remit to the former owners their rights..
Forestal :: Forestal (a.) Of or pertaining to forests; as, forestal rights..
Zygenid :: Zygenid (n.) Any one of numerous species of moths of the family Zygaenidae, most of which are bright colored. The wood nymph and the vine forester are examples. Also used adjectively..
Haggler :: Haggler (n.) One who forestalls a market; a middleman between producer and dealer in London vegetable markets.
Waldgrave :: Waldgrave (n.) In the old German empire, the head forest keeper..
Preventer :: Preventer (n.) One who goes before; one who forestalls or anticipates another.
Afforestation :: Afforestation (n.) The act of converting into forest or woodland.
Forestall :: Forestall (v. t.) To take possession of, in advance of some one or something else, to the exclusion or detriment of the latter; to get ahead of; to preoccupy; also, to exclude, hinder, or prevent, by prior occupation, or by measures taken in advance..
Backwoodsman :: Backwoodsman (n.) A man living in the forest in or beyond the new settlements, especially on the western frontiers of the older portions of the United States..
Ward :: Ward (n.) A division of a forest.
Forestall :: Forestall (v. t.) To deprive; -- with of.
Forestage :: Forestage (n.) A service paid by foresters to the king.
Leafy :: Leafy (superl) Full of leaves; abounding in leaves; as, the leafy forest..
Coafforest :: Coafforest (v. t.) To convert into, or add to, a forest..
Disafforested :: Disafforested (imp. & p. p.) of Disaffores.
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