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   forest

   /ˈfɒrɪst/

   noun

   • 1. a large area covered chiefly with trees and undergrowth: "a pine forest"
   • ▪ an area, typically owned by the sovereign and partly wooded, kept for hunting and having its own laws. historical
   • ▪ denoting an area that was formerly a royal forest: "Waltham Forest"
   • 2. a large number or dense mass of vertical or tangled objects: "a forest of high-rise apartments"

   Word Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘wooded area kept for hunting’, also denoting any uncultivated land): via Old French from late Latin forestis (silva), literally ‘(wood) outside’, from Latin foris ‘outside’ (see foreign).

   Derivatives

   • 1. forestation noun

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