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forespeak |
forespeaking |
forespeech |
forespent |
forespurrer |
forest
| forest fire
| forest fire fighter
| forest goat
| forest god
| forest ranger
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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun forest has 2 senses
- forest(n = noun.group) wood, woods - the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area; Array is a kind of botany, flora, vegetation
- forest(n = noun.object) timber, timberland, woodland - land that is covered with trees and shrubs; Array is a kind of biome, dry land, earth, ground, land, solid ground, terra firma
has particulars: bosk, grove, jungle, rain forest, rainforest, old growth, virgin forest, second growth
Derived form verb forest1
has particulars: greenwood, riparian forest, silva, sylva, tree farm
Derived form verb forest1
Verb forest has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
forest, n. [OF. forest, F. forêt, LL. forestis, also, forestus, forestum, foresta, prop., open ground reserved for the chase, fr. L. foris, foras, out of doors, abroad. See Foreign.].
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- A large extent or precinct of country, generally waste and woody, belonging to the sovereign, set apart for the keeping of game for his use, not inclosed, but distinguished by certain limits, and protected by certain laws, courts, and officers of its own. Burrill. [1913 Webster]
forest, a.
Of or pertaining to a forest; sylvan. [1913 Webster]
forest, v. t.
To cover with trees or wood. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
forest, n. & v.
--n.
1 a (often attrib.) a large area covered chiefly with trees and undergrowth. b the trees growing in it. c a large number or dense mass of vertical objects (a forest of masts).
2 a district formerly a forest but now cultivated (Sherwood Forest).
3 hist. an area usu. owned by the sovereign and kept for hunting.
--v.tr.
1 plant with trees.
2 convert into a forest.
--n.
1 a (often attrib.) a large area covered chiefly with trees and undergrowth. b the trees growing in it. c a large number or dense mass of vertical objects (a forest of masts).
2 a district formerly a forest but now cultivated (Sherwood Forest).
3 hist. an area usu. owned by the sovereign and kept for hunting.
--v.tr.
1 plant with trees.
2 convert into a forest.
Idiom
forest-tree a large tree suitable for a forest.
Etymology
ME f. OF f. LL forestis silva wood outside the walls of a park f. L foris outside
THESAURUS
forest
afforestation, afforestational, arboreous, arboretum, back country, backwoods, bed, boondock, boondocks, borderland, bosky, braky, broadcast, brush, bush, bush country, bushveld, bushy, chase, climax forest, cloud forest, coppice, copse, copsy, dendrologic, dendrology, dibble, disseminate, drill, forest land, forest preserve, forestal, forested, forestry, forests, fringing forest, frontier, gallery forest, greenwood, grove, hanger, hinterland, implant, index forest, inseminate, jungle, jungles, national forest, outback, outpost, palmetto barrens, park, park forest, pine barrens, plant, pot, primeval forest, protection forest, put in, rain forest, reforest, reforestation, reforestational, reset, retimber, scatter seed, scrub, scrubby, scrubland, seed, seed down, selection forest, seminate, set, shrubby, shrubland, silvicultural, silviculture, sow, sow broadcast, sprout forest, stand of timber, state forest, sylvan, the bush, thicket, timber, timbered, timberland, timbers, transplant, tree veld, uninhabited region, up-country, virgin forest, virgin land, virgin territory, wasteland, weald, wild West, wilderness, wilds, wildwood, wood, wooded, woodland, woodlands, woods, woodsy, woodyROGET THESAURUS
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Vegetable
N vegetable, vegetable kingdom, flora, verdure, plant, tree, shrub, bush, creeper, herb, herbage, grass, annual, perennial, biennial, triennial, exotic, timber, forest, wood, woodlands, timberland, hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney, underwood, brushwood, scrub, boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte, arboretum, bush, jungle, prairie, heath, heather, fern, bracken, furze, gorse, whin, grass, turf, pasture, pasturage, turbary, sedge, rush, weed, fungus, mushroom, toadstool, lichen, moss, conferva, mold, growth, alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan, blow, blowth, floret, petiole, pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia, foliage, branch, bough, ramage, stem, tigella, spray, leaf, flower, blossom, bine, flowering plant, timber tree, fruit tree, pulse, legume, vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous, herbaceous, herbal, botanic, sylvan, silvan, arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical, woody, grassy, verdant, verdurous, floral, mossy, lignous, ligneous, wooden, leguminous, vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy, endogenous, exogenous, green-robed senators of mighty woods, this is the forest primeval.
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