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Forest

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.

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Narrower term 6

Bosk 76% connected

A thicket; a small wood.

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Greenwood 76% connected

A forest as it appears is spring and summer.

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Grove 76% connected

A smaller group of trees than a forest, and without underwood, planted, or growing naturally as if arranged by art; a wood of small extent.

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Jungle 76% connected

A dense growth of brushwood, grasses, reeds, vines, etc.; an almost impenetrable thicket of trees, canes, and reedy vegetation, as in India, Africa,…

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Silva 76% connected

The forest trees of a region or country, considered collectively.

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Sylva 76% connected

Same as Silva.

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Botany 76% connected

The science which treats of the structure of plants, the functions of their parts, their places of growth, their classification, and the terms which…

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Earth 76% connected

The globe or planet which we inhabit; the world, in distinction from the sun, moon, or stars. Also, this world as the dwelling place of mortals, in d…

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Flora 76% connected

The goddess of flowers and spring.

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Ground 76% connected

of Grind

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Land 76% connected

Urine. See Lant.

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Plant 76% connected

A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though c…

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Set 76% connected

of Set

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Vegetation 76% connected

The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.

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Forestry 74% connected

The art of forming or of cultivating forests; the management of growing timber.

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Forestry 74% connected

The art of forming or of cultivating forests; the management of growing timber.

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Member part 4

Tree 70% connected

Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.

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Underbrush 70% connected

Shrubs, small trees, and the like, in a wood or forest, growing beneath large trees; undergrowth.

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Undergrowth 70% connected

That which grows under trees; specifically, shrubs or small trees growing among large trees.

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Underwood 70% connected

Small trees and bushes that grow among large trees; coppice; underbrush; -- formerly used in the plural.

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Synonym 4

Afforest 92% connected

To convert into a forest; as, to afforest a tract of country.

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Timber 92% connected

A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred…

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Wood 92% connected

Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic.

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Woodland 92% connected

Land covered with wood or trees; forest; land on which trees are suffered to grow, either for fuel or timber.

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