forest-born

English edit

forest-born (not comparable)

(dated, obsolete, rare) Having been born in a forest.
- 1837, various authors, Southern Literary Messenger, page 238:
  The walls are still standing, which once resounded with the accents of the forest-born Demosthenes.
- 1841, Henry Stuart Foote, Texas and the Texans, page 120:
  ...to guide and direct the united energies of the colonists, made one people, by common sufferings, and common dangers; forest-born orators to rouse in the most lethargic and unconquerable spirit of resistance to Tyranny.