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Backwoodsman :: Backwoodsman (n.) A man living in the forest in or beyond the new settlements, especially on the western frontiers of the older portions of the United States..

Disforestation :: Disforestation (n.) The act of clearing land of forests.

Palmerworm :: Palmerworm (n.) In America, the larva of any one of several moths, which destroys the foliage of fruit and forest trees, esp. the larva of Ypsolophus pometellus, which sometimes appears in vast numbers..

Sylviculturist :: Sylviculture (n.) The cultivation of forest trees for timber or other purposes; forestry; arboriculture.

Backwoods :: Backwoods (n. pl.) The forests or partly cleared grounds on the frontiers.

Wood-note :: Wood-note (n.) A wild or natural note, as of a forest bird..

Wild :: Wild (superl.) Living in a state of nature; inhabiting natural haunts, as the forest or open field; not familiar with, or not easily approached by, man; not tamed or domesticated; as, a wild boar; a wild ox; a wild cat..

Usnea :: Usnea (n.) A genus of lichens, most of the species of which have long, gray, pendulous, and finely branched fronds. Usnea barbata is the common bearded lichen which grows on branches of trees in northern forests..

Disboscation :: Disboscation (n.) Converting forest land into cleared or arable land; removal of a forest.

Disforest :: Disforest (v. t.) To clear or deprive of forests or trees.

Woodland :: Woodland (n.) Land covered with wood or trees; forest; land on which trees are suffered to grow, either for fuel or timber..

Copal :: Copal () A resinous substance flowing spontaneously from trees of Zanzibar, Madagascar, and South America (Trachylobium Hornemannianum, T. verrucosum, and Hymenaea Courbaril), and dug from earth where forests have stood in Africa; -- used chiefly in making varnishes..

Forester :: Forester (n.) An inhabitant of a forest.

Afforestation :: Afforestation (n.) The act of converting into forest or woodland.

Savage :: Savage (a.) Of or pertaining to the forest; remote from human abodes and cultivation; in a state of nature; wild; as, a savage wilderness..

Unfrequented :: Unfrequented (a.) Rarely visited; seldom or never resorted to by human beings; as, an unfrequented place or forest..

Silva :: Silva (n.) The forest trees of a region or country, considered collectively..

Pinery :: Pinery (n.) A pine forest; a grove of pines.

Forester :: Forester (n.) One who has charge of the growing timber on an estate; an officer appointed to watch a forest and preserve the game.

Windfall :: Windfall (n.) Anything blown down or off by the wind, as fruit from a tree, or the tree itself, or a portion of a forest prostrated by a violent wind, etc..

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