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| Main Entry: |
forest
 [fawr-ist, for-] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | area with a large number of trees |
| Synonyms: | backwoods, brake, chase, clump, coppice, copse, cover, covert, grove, growth, jungle, park, shelter, stand, thicket, timber, timberland, weald, wildwood, wood, woodland, woodlot, woods |
| Main Entry: | bush |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shrubs; woodland |
| Synonyms: | backcountry, backwoods, boscage, bramble, briar, brush, chaparral, creeper, forest, hedge, hinterland, jungle, outback, plant, scrub, scrubland, shrubbery, the wild, thicket, vine, wilderness |
| Notes: | bush and shrub are used interchangeably for relatively low woody perennials with many stems and branches that grow from a complex close to the ground; a tree is a woody perennial, usually taller, with branches starting higher up |
| Main Entry: | country |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rural area; area away from city |
| Synonyms: | back country, backwoods, boondocks, boonies, bush, countryside, cow country, farmland, farms, forests, green belt, hinterland, middle of nowhere, outback, outdoors, province, sticks, up country, wide open space, wilderness, wilds, woodlands, woods |
| Antonyms: | city, metropolis, urbanity |
Example Sentences
- The pine trees framing the entrance to the forest appear to be normal.
- One point to be noted is how each country defines what a forest is.
- Tropical forest deforestation could be almost entirely stopped by buying out the logging permits.
| Main Entry: | forward |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in front, first |
| Synonyms: | advance, anterior, facial, fore, foremost, front, head, leading, ventral |
| Antonyms: | back, last |
| Main Entry: | front |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lead, beginning |
| Synonyms: | advanced, ahead, anterior, facial, first, fore, foremost, forward, frontal, head, headmost, in the foreground, leading, obverse, topmost, vanward, ventral |
| Antonyms: | back, ending, final, finishing, rear |
| Main Entry: | green |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | emerald in color |
| Synonyms: | apple, aquamarine, beryl, bice, blue-green, chartreuse, fir, forest, grass, greenish-blue, jade, kelly, lime, malachite, moss, olive, pea, peacock, pine, sage, sap, sea, spinach, verdigris, vert, viridian, willow |
| Main Entry: | grove |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cluster of trees |
| Synonyms: | brake, coppice, copse, covert, forest, orchard, plantation, spinney, stand, thicket, wood, woodland |
| Main Entry: | jungle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wilderness full of plant and animal life |
| Synonyms: | boscage, bush, chaparral, forest, labyrinth, maze, morass, primeval forest, tangle, undergrowth, wasteland, web, wood, zoo |
| Main Entry: | nature |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | earth, creation |
| Synonyms: | cosmos, country, countryside, environment, forest, generation, landscape, macrocosm, megacosm, natural history, outdoors, scenery, seascape, setting, universe, view, world |
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