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noun
- 1. a large area covered chiefly with trees and undergrowth: "a pine forest"
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a large area of land covered with trees and plants, usually larger than a wood, or the trees and plants themselves: the Black Forest. in the forest The children got lost in the forest. Geography Photos/Universal Images Group/GettyImages. Fewer examples. The campsite is set in the middle of a pine forest.
Sep 27, 2024 · Forest, complex ecological system in which trees are the dominant life-form. Tree-dominated ecosystems can occur wherever the temperatures rise above 10 degrees Celsius (50 degrees Fahrenheit) in the warmest months and the annual precipitation is more than 200 mm (8 inches).
A forest is an ecosystem characterized by a dense community of trees. [2] Hundreds of definitions of forest are used throughout the world, incorporating factors such as tree density, tree height, land use, legal standing, and ecological function.
The meaning of FOREST is a dense growth of trees and underbrush covering a large tract. How to use forest in a sentence.
a large area of land covered with trees and plants, usually larger than a wood, or the trees and plants themselves: the Black Forest. in the forest The children got lost in the forest. Geography Photos/Universal Images Group/GettyImages. Fewer examples. The campsite is set in the middle of a pine forest.
A forest is a complex ecological system in which trees are the dominant life-form. A forest is nature’s most efficient ecosystem, with a high rate of photosynthesis affecting both plant and animal systems in a series of complex organic relationships.
A forest is an extensive area, preserving some or all of its primitive wildness and usually having game or wild animals in it: Sherwood Forest; the Black Forest. A grove is a group or cluster of trees, usually not very large in area and cleared of underbrush.
FOREST definition: 1. a large area of trees growing closely together: 2. covered by forest: . Learn more.
noun. /ˈfɒrɪst/ /ˈfɔːrɪst/ Idioms. [countable, uncountable] a large area of land that is thickly covered with trees. a tropical/pine forest. One careless match can start a forest fire. Thousands of hectares of forest are destroyed each year. the forest floor/canopy. see also cloud forest, rainforest. Extra Examples. Topics Geography a2.
1. A growth of trees and other plants covering a large area. 2. A large number of objects bearing a similarity to such a growth, especially a dense collection of tall objects: a forest of skyscrapers. 3. A defined area of land formerly set aside in England as a royal hunting ground. tr.v. for·est·ed, for·est·ing, for·ests.
