Thesaurus:forest
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[edit]Noun
[edit]Sense: a dense collection of trees covering a relatively large area
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]Hyponyms
[edit]- backwoods
- boscage
- bosk
- bosque
- brake
- cloud forest
- coppice
- copse
- cover
- covert [⇒ thesaurus]
- frith
- gallery forest
- greenwood
- grove
- growth
- hammock
- holt
- hurst
- jungle
- thicket
- old-growth forest
- primeval forest
- rainforest
- ruffmans (archaic cant)
- scrub
- spinney
- taiga
- timberland
- virgin forest
- weald
- wildwood
- wold (obsolete sense)
- wood lot
- woodlot
- beechwood
- birchwood
- oakwood
- pineland
- pinewood
- pineyard
Meronyms
[edit]Various
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “367. vegetable” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “forest” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.