noun. A growth of trees and other plants covering a large area.

noun. A large number of objects bearing a similarity to such a growth, especially a dense collection of tall objects.

noun. A defined area of land formerly set aside in England as a royal hunting ground.

transitive verb. To plant trees on or cover with trees.

noun. A tract of land covered with trees; a wood, usually one of considerable extent; a tract of woodland with or without inclosed intervals of open and uncultivated ground.

noun. In Great Britain, a designation still retained for some large tracts of land or districts formerly but not now covered with trees or constituting royal forests (see below), especially such as have some of the distinctive characteristics or uses of wild or broken woodland, as the Forest of Dean in England or some of the deer-forests of Scotland.

noun. In English law, and formerly also in Scots law, a territory of woody grounds and pastures privileged for wild beasts and fowls of chase and warren to rest and abide in, generally belonging to the sovereign, and set apart for his recreation, or granted by him to others, under special laws, and having officers specially appointed to look after it; a hunting-preserve maintained at public expense for royal or aristocratic use: specifically called a royal forest.

Pertaining or relating to forests; sylvan: as, forest law.

To cover with trees or wood; afforest.

noun. undefined

noun. In phytogeography, specifically, a closed woodland, that is, one in which the crowns of the trees touch.

transitive verb. To cover with trees or wood.

adjective. Of or pertaining to a forest; sylvan.

adjective. A fly of the genus Hippobosca, esp. H. equina. See Horse tick.

adjective. a grassy space in a forest.

adjective. laws for the protection of game, preservation of timber, etc., in forests.

adjective. a tree of the forest, especially a timber tree, as distinguished from a fruit tree.

noun. 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.

noun. 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.

noun. A dense collection of trees covering a relatively large area. Larger than woods.

noun. Any dense collection or amount.

noun. A defined area of land set aside in England as royal hunting ground or for other privileged use; all such areas.

noun. A disjoint union of trees.

verb. To cover an area with trees.

verb. establish a forest on previously unforested land

noun. land that is covered with trees and shrubs

noun. the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area

"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."

prairie  

absolute forest land  bush  charter of the forest  communal forest  composite forest  

afforest  

Forrest  deforest  florist  reforest  

desert  field  garden  grass  grove  

afforestation  afforestational  arboreous  arboretum  back country  

fored  forested  foresting  forests