Another word for forest
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- To rub hard in order to clean:
- To remove (dirt or stains) by hard rubbing.
- To remove impurities from (a gas) chemically.
- Trees that cover an area after the removal of the original stand, as by cutting or fire.
- A small wooded valley; a dell.
- A small secluded wooded valley.
- A mass of trees or shrubs; a thicket.
- A small grove; a copse.
- A woodland.
- An area of open rolling upland.
- An open rolling upland area, as found in several regions of England.
- A small wooded area.
- A thicket or grove of small trees or shrubs, especially one maintained by periodic cutting or pruning to encourage suckering, as in the cultivation of cinnamon trees for their bark.
- To cut or prune (a tree) in making or maintaining a coppice.
- To grow as a coppice after cutting. Used of trees.
- A thicket of small trees or shrubs; a coppice.
- A device for slowing or stopping motion, as of a vehicle, especially by contact friction.
- Something that slows or stops action.
- To reduce the speed of with or as if with a brake.
- To follow rapidly in order to catch or overtake; pursue:
- To follow (game) in order to capture or kill; hunt:
- To seek the favor or company of persistently:
- Something, especially a structure, that provides cover or protection, as from the weather:
- An establishment that provides temporary housing for homeless people.
- An establishment that cares for unwanted or stray animals and tries to find owners for them.
- An implement typically consisting of bristles fastened into a handle, used in scrubbing, polishing, grooming, or applying a liquid.
- The act of using this implement.
- A sweeping stroke of the hand, as in removing something.
- Branches that have been cut or broken off.
- Dense undergrowth.
- An area covered by such growth.
- A dense growth of shrubs or underbrush; a copse.
- Something suggestive of a dense growth of plants, as in impenetrability or thickness:
- A clustered mass; a lump:
- A thick grouping, as of trees or bushes.
- A heavy dull sound; a thud.
- Not openly practiced, avowed, engaged in, accumulated, or shown:
- Covered or covered over; sheltered.
- Being married and therefore protected by one's husband.
- To place something upon or over, so as to protect or conceal:
- To overlay or spread with something:
- To put a cover or covering on:
- A wood or forest with green foliage.
- A piece of land with few or no buildings within or adjoining a town, maintained for recreational and ornamental purposes.
- A landscaped city square.
- A large tract of rural land kept in its natural state and usually reserved for the enjoyment and recreation of visitors.
- Heavily wooded, uncultivated, thinly settled areas.
- An area that is far from population centers or that is held to be culturally backward.
- A forest being more or less free from human ecological disturbance.
- A small wood or stand of trees lacking dense undergrowth.
- A group of trees planted and cultivated for the production of fruit or nuts:
- The process of growing.
- Full development; maturity.
- Development from a lower or simpler to a higher or more complex form; evolution.
- Trees or wooded land considered as a source of wood.
- Wood used as a building material; lumber.
- A dressed piece of wood, especially a beam in a structure.
- Land covered with a dense growth of tropical vegetation.
- A dense thicket or growth.
- A dense, confused mass; a jumble.
- Land covered with trees.
- Of, relating to, or constituting woodland.
- Living, growing, or present in woodland:
- Forested land, especially land containing timber of commercial value.
- The secondary xylem of trees and shrubs, lying beneath the bark and consisting largely of cellulose and lignin.
- This tissue when cut and dried, used especially for building material and fuel.
- A growth of trees and other plants usually covering a smaller area than a forest.
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