Thesaurus:forest
English 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.