Forest Noun ˈfɒrɪst ˈfɔːrɪst Tropical/Pine Careless Match Start

• a tropical/pine forest
• one careless match can start a forest fire.
• thousands of hectares of forest are destroyed each year.
• the forest floor/canopy

forest

1. a large area of land that is thickly covered with trees
• SEE ALSO cloud forest
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/cloud-forest
• a tropical/pine forest
• One careless match can start a forest fire.
• Thousands of hectares of forest are destroyed each year.
• the forest floor/canopy

Extra Examples

• Forest is being cleared to make way for new farming land.
• He warned her never to enter the forest at night.
• Much of Europe was once covered in forest.
• They got lost in the forest.
• Thick forest stretched as far as the eye could see.
• We slashed our way through the dense forest.
• a large stretch of virgin forest
• The species is found in both coniferous and deciduous forests.
2. a mass of tall narrow objects that are close together
• a forest of cranes on the skyline
3. to not see or understand the main point about something, because you are paying too much attention to small details

Word Origin

• Middle English (in the sense ‘wooded area kept for hunting’, also denoting any uncultivated land): via Old French from late Latin forestis (silva) , literally ‘(wood) outside’, from Latin foris ‘outside’, from fores ‘door’.