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  • noun Plural form of forest.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of forest.

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Examples

  • Though we were only three strong, we departed with a retinue of seven horses, and for nearly ten miles rode back the same way by which I had come from Reikholt on the preceding morning; then we turned off to the left, and crossing hills and acclivities, reached other valleys, which were partly traversed by beautiful streams of lava, and partly interspersed with forests -- _forests_, as I have already said, according to Icelandic notions.

    Visit to Iceland Ida Pfeiffer 1827

  • The flora of these rain forests is typical of the Amazon florisic province.

    Solimões-Japurá moist forest 2008

  • Now, I cannot emphasize too strongly that we are concerned in forests from the point of view of the public responsibility for the perpetuation of forest areas.

    Paying Our War Debt With Timber Crops 1921

  • Late-successional temperate forests (which we define as forests in which all individuals belonging to the initial cohort of trees have died) are often N-limited, yet 'N fixers' (here, tree taxa that have been shown to form N-fixing symbioses, or an individual tree that belongs to such a taxon, regardless of whether it is actively fixing N) are rare or absent in these forests

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Duncan N. L. Menge et al. 2010

  • To ensure the healthiest ecosystems, management of forests is required.

    Montana To Consider Bill Protecting Fish Habitat and Forest Jobs 2009

  • To ensure the healthiest ecosystems, management of forests is required.

    Montana To Consider Bill Protecting Fish Habitat and Forest Jobs 2009

  • Turpentine work in forests did not use this gang system.

    John 2010

  • The oceans emit CO2 every second of every minute, so do the rain forests and for that matter, all forested areas.

    Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009

  • Turpentine work in forests did not use this gang system.

    Archive 2010-06-01 2010

  • His eyes are still afire with the wonder of rain forests covering Germany, of volcanic lakes spewing deadly CO2, of a motley international band of paleontologists unravelling the ancient tragedy of a little girl with a maimed hand who suffocated and drowned a mere 20 million years after the dinosaurs.

    Darwin Saves... zornhau 2009

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