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Main Entry:	forest [fawr-ist, for-] Show IPA/ˈfɔrɪst, ˈfɒr-/ Show Spelled
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

In a deciduous forest in autumn, leaves are going to fall.

In my favorite children's books, there was always a dark forest filled with unfamiliar shadows and strange inhabitants.

Cold winters and forest fires normally keep the beetle populations in check.

In a deciduous forest in autumn, leaves are going to fall.

In my favorite children's books, there was always a dark forest filled with unfamiliar shadows and strange inhabitants.

Cold winters and forest fires normally keep the beetle populations in check.

Thick tracts of rain forest once stretched across nearly every corner of this tropical ecoregion.

Protecting remaining old-growth forest is important for many reasons.

The area is also home to the largest contiguous forest on earth.

Email me an example with a wicked witch, an evil gnome, or a bawdy satyr hiding in that tiny forest.

The pine trees framing the entrance to the forest appear to be normal.

The company and government said the residents were living illegally in a forest.

Often they can see the forest in ways that professors cannot.

One point to be noted is how each country defines what a forest is.

But the agents withdrew after a sweep of the nearby forest turned up a lone suspect.

The whole rainforest-water vapor system is called a biotic pump, because the living forest matter is what's moving the water.

Glue a radio transmitter onto the back of a bat, track its movements, and find out if a forest is healthy.

But his favorite aspect of the home is the dense forest that surrounds it.

But they have a chance of working only if the countries in which they operate define forest land rights clearly.

Fires have also contributed substantially to forest loss.

Additionally, tractors and skidders used to remove the hardwoods destroy the forest floor and promote additional logging.

The utopian lepidopterist's aim is to put names on all the moths and butterflies in the forest.

Apply a different set of zoning laws to forest owners.

Beach forest and mangroves along the coasts give way to lowland rain forest and open forest as you move into higher elevations.

Specifically, stream fish prey on forest invertebrates when the aquatic food supply is at its lowest, during the summer.

With more people living nearby, forest managers there have historically contained and prevented fires.

Finally, it seems, something is stirring in the forest.

Cactus-dominated desert scrub, dry forest, and gallery forest make up this dry tropical forest mosaic.

Even this falls away, though, once you have more than enough skill and ammo to handle anything in the forest.

Ecosystem services are what a forest provides merely by existing.

But scattered among human settlements are pockets of a rich, lowland forest that once grew widely in this region.

It's that an important component of the forest is gone.

So when a young woman stumbled out of the forest one day, unkempt and deranged, she was denounced as a jinn.

Access to the interior rain forest and forest people is limited.

Instead, the expansion of the vine is probably due to other forest disturbances.

Due to this isolation many endemic species and dry forest specialists occur here.

In the west the tsingy walls in a large portion of forest.

There is great hiking, mountain biking, and anything else you can do in a forest or on a mountain.

Researchers have confirmed a long-suspected link between logging and the devastation of forest fires in tropical rain forests.

Fragments of the original forest remained, thanks to.

The second-growth forest that squirrel monkeys prefer for the plentiful soft fruits and insects is rapidly disappearing.

Growing a green roof is a cinch if you live in a damp forest where epiphytes?plants.

With security conditions ever better, huge areas of mountain forest and jungle have been opened up to scientific research.

These people need space to live in, fuel and food, which puts further pressure on the forest.

Much tropical deforestation is caused by ranchers, who burn the forest to create cattle grazing.

Trees in a temperate forest draw nitrogen from the soil that is largely derived from the.

People aren't meant to live in museums, though, perhaps particularly pygmies more used to the forest.

Champagne flutes and evergreen sprigs form a centerpiece when interspersed with forest green tea lights in clear votive holders.

Overall, adding forest in one spot may lead to a developer cutting down a forest in a nearby spot.

Toot learns about the forest by listening to its sounds.

From floor to canopy, the tropical forest is crawling with.

Last evening's storm has feathered the trail and surrounding forest with snow.

By farming with microbes that pull nitrogen from the air, the ants thrive in nitrogen-poor rain forest soil.

Most unfortunately, thusfar the forest has proved itself to be more valuable dead than alive.

The nuts that rained down each fall fed nearly all the inhabitants of the forest.

Your house doesn't have to sit in a forest to be vulnerable to wildfire.

It's housed in what appears at first to be an enormous junkyard surrounded by a forest.

It would be built mostly on coastal scrubland, not forest.

The forest of poplar, beech and hickory is deep greenfrom weeks of heavy rains.

The trail is naturally paved with pebbly granite and forest duff that drain moisture and muck.

Low, throaty grunts echo from either side of the path, but the forest canopy is too thick for you to spot the gorillas until you.

Strolling through an equatorial rain forest or a northern pine forest can be thrilling enough, if only for the lavish scenery.

Get one whiff of oakmoss extract and you never forget it: a deep, raspy, dark smell that conjures up a primeval forest.

Outdated forest first prevention methods and global warming are teaming to produce so-called mega-fires.

When confronted with the forest of chains, the bats tended to reduce or increase the sounds they emitted by a few kilohertz.

Many millions have been spent acquiring the sort of forest that might be suitable for the bird-if it were to be found.

Standing on a hilltop, you would see a forest of electric.

Tropical forest deforestation could be almost entirely stopped by buying out the logging permits.

Elaborate roots grip lakebeds, though perhaps not as strongly as they did the forest floor.

They complete the circle of migration by heading back to the forest in the center of the island.

At that point, more than four million acres of forest and brushland had burned--twice.

Balch recommends that forest managers use the framework to improve planning and zoning along the wildland-urban interface.

So the cake could be a stand-in for a tract of land that's part forest and part seashore.

The rare photo was only captured after multiple treks into the dense forest.

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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