forest
IPA: fˈɔrʌst
noun
- A dense uncultivated tract of trees and undergrowth, larger than woods.
- Any dense collection or amount.
- (historical) A defined area of land set aside in England as royal hunting ground or for other privileged use; all such areas.
- (graph theory) A graph with no cycles; i.e., a graph made up of trees.
- (computing, Microsoft Windows) A group of domains that are managed as a unit.
- The colour forest green.
- A surname.
- A city, the county seat of Scott County, Mississippi, United States.
- A male given name: Alternative form of Forrest.
verb
- (transitive) To cover an area with trees.
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Examples of "forest" in Sentences
- The term forest bathing is just a way to encapsulate the concept.
- Northern visitors 'first reaction to the storied Amazon rain forest is often disappointment.
- Written by Betty J. Meggers, the Smithsonian archaeologist, Amazonia says that the apparent lushness of the rain forest is a sham.
- Much of the destruction of the rain forest is at the hands of out-of-work and dislocated campesinos trying to feed their families.
- The storybook about a stumpy little guy who stands on a tree stump deploring the destruction of a forest is being adapted into a 3-D ...
- This region of dense tropical rain forest is situated on the lowland plateau in the central northern portion of the Amazon Basin in Brazil with tiny sections just touching Colombia and Venezuela.
- Along the clearwater Tapajós and Aripuanã Rivers, white-sand igapó forest is predominant, hosting large trees such as Triplaris surinamensis, Piranhea trifoliata, Copaifera martii, and Alchornea castaneaefolia in forest that is slightly more open than that in non-flooded areas.
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