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Definition: FOREST from A Dictionary of Entomology

Noun. (Latin, forestem silvam = outside woods; forestis, = forest preserve, game preserve. PL, Forests.) 1. Land covered with and dominated by trees and shrubs. 2. Trees and shrubs in a large densely wooded area.


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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
a dense growth of trees, together with other plants, covering a large area of land. The science concerned with the study, preservation, and management of forests is forestry . A forest is an ecosystem—a community of plants and animals interacting with one another and with the physical environment (see ecology ). The forests of the world are classified in three general types, or formations, which are primarily expressions of the climate in which the vegetation grows. The tropical hardwood forests, including rain forests, occur throughout the lowland areas of the tropics—especially along the routes of rivers in Central and South America and in central and W Africa—and in the East Indies, the Malay Peninsula, and parts of India, Indochina, and Australia. They are characterized by an annual rainfall of 160–400 in. (406–1,000 cm) annually, with an average temperature of at least 80 degrees Fahrenheit (27 degrees Celsius), and support a great diversity of plant life. The foliage is a…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
a dense growth of trees, together with other plants, covering a large area of land. The science concerned with the study, preservation, and management of forests is forestry . A forest is an ecosystem—a community of plants and animals interacting with one another and with the physical environment…
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Forests and people: A long history in brief Forest ecosystem services: Types and scales of delivery Provisioning services: Harvest of forest products Regulating services: Benefits from forests' functioning Cultural services: Benefits from forests' subtle values Reduction of world's forests: …
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From The Macquarie Dictionary
an area of bushland dominated by trees, the type of tree often being specified paperbark forest gum forest., forests a tract of land on which trees are cultivated pine forest., forests the trees themselves to cut down a forest., forests forest land Rural relatively open land with good grass and only…
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From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
Complex ecosystem in which trees are the dominant life-form. Tree-dominated forests can occur wherever the temperatures rise above 50 °F (10 °C) in the warmest months and the annual precipitation is more than 8 in. (200 mm). They can develop under various conditions within these limits, and the kind…
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From A Dictionary of Literary Symbols
Forests used to be places of danger to a degree difficult to appreciate today, when for modern city-dwellers they are retreats or playgrounds; perhaps only arctic forests or tropical jungles retain something of the fearful vastness and strangeness they once implied. Forests are traditionally dark, …
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From Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Cleveland, Ohio, from its many well-shaded, tree-lined streets. The ancient courts established for the conduct of forest business and the administration of the forest laws, the main aim of which was to preserve the wild animals for the royal chase. Such laws existed in Saxon England and were…
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From The Chambers Dictionary
a large uncultivated tract of land covered with trees and undergrowth; woody ground and rough pasture; a royal preserve for hunting, governed by a special code called the forest law ( hist ); any area resembling a forest because thickly covered with tall, upright objects. adj of, relating to, or…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Area where trees have grown naturally for centuries, instead of being logged at maturity (about 150–200 years). A natural, or old-growth, forest has a multistorey canopy and includes young and very old trees (this gives the canopy its range of heights). There are also fallen trees contributing to…
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From Environmental History and Global Change: A Dictionary of Environmental History
In Britain the idea that large areas of primeval forest remained untouched until cleared by the axes of Anglo-Saxon or Norman peasants has long been exploded. There was considerable clearance in some areas by the end of the Neolithic, e.g. Salisbury Plain. Large-scale clearance of upland fringes…
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From National Geographic Answer Book: 10,001 Fast Facts About Our World Full text Article CLIMATES & HABITATS
LARGEST AREA OF FOREST RUSSIA 2,957,203 square miles CANADA 1,907,345 square miles BRAZIL 1,884,179 square miles UNITED STATES 1,142,824 square miles DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO 671,046 square miles AUSTRALIA 559,848 square miles CHINA 503,848 square miles The world's temperate forests are…
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