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Forestry

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

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Biology 76% connected

The science of life; that branch of knowledge which treats of living matter as distinct from matter which is not living; the study of living tissue.…

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Silviculture 76% connected

See Sylviculture.

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Undercut 76% connected

The lower or under side of a sirloin of beef; the fillet.

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Forest 74% connected

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 be…

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Forest 74% connected

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 be…

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Aerial adjective · 78% connection

Growing, forming, or existing in the air, as opposed to growing or existing in earth or water, or underground; as, aerial rootlets, ae…

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Agist verb · 78% connection

To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; -- used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the m…

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Agistment noun · 78% connection

Formerly, the taking and feeding of other men's cattle in the king's forests.

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Agriculture noun · 78% connection

The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live stock; tillage…

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Aurochs noun · 78% connection

The European bison (Bison bonasus, / Europaeus), once widely distributed, but now nearly extinct, except where protected in the Lithua…

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Backwoods n. pl. · 78% connection

The forests or partly cleared grounds on the frontiers.

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Copal unknown · 78% connection

A resinous substance flowing spontaneously from trees of Zanzibar, Madagascar, and South America (Trachylobium Hornemannianum, T. verr…

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Counsel noun · 78% connection

One who gives advice, especially in legal matters; one professionally engaged in the trial or management of a cause in court; also, co…

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Crepe fern noun · 78% connection

fern of rain forests of tropical Australia and New Zealand and South Africa

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Cultivation noun · 78% connection

The art or act of cultivating; improvement for agricultural purposes or by agricultural processes; tillage; production by tillage.

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Culture noun · 78% connection

The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the culture of the soil.

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Deforest verb · 78% connection

To clear of forests; to disforest.

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Disforest verb · 78% connection

To clear or deprive of forests or trees.

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Disforestation noun · 78% connection

The act of clearing land of forests.

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Economy noun · 78% connection

Orderly arrangement and management of the internal affairs of a state or of any establishment kept up by production and consumption; e…

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Farming noun · 78% connection

The business of cultivating land.

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Fast local internet protocol noun · 78% connection

a suite of internet protocols, which provide Security transparency, security and network management.; "FLIP is a connectionless protoc…

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Flip noun · 78% connection

a suite of internet protocols, which provide Security transparency, security and network management.; "FLIP is a connectionless protoc…

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