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A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation (3 ed.)
... An ecosystem that is dominated by trees , the crowns of which touch to form a continuous canopy, or the trees that comprise such an ecosystem. See also coniferous forest ; deciduous forest ; evergreen forest ; evergreen mixed forest ; thorn forest ; tropical rainforest...
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Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain
... 1881: 857; scattered in England and Scotland. English, Scottish: see Forrest...
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A Dictionary of Agriculture and Land Management
... The distinction between a wood or woodland and a forest is essentially one of scale and is not strictly defined, and the terms are commonly interchangeable. Forests cover a relatively larger area, and usually with a denser collection of trees . Forest is an historic term and formerly described a royal hunting ground on which deer were maintained for the enjoyment of hunting by the crown, and hence the larger size. The New Forest and Sherwood Forest were two examples. See also Ancient Woodland ; Ancient Semi-Natural Woodland ; wildwood ; ...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (3 ed.)
... [MC] In medieval times land on which the king and a few other major lords had the right to keep deer and other game and could make Forest Laws to protect them. Thus, a forest was not necessarily a place of trees but rather a place of deer and game for hunting and...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Local and Family History
... . The popular sense of the word is of a dense wood, but medieval forests were never more than partly wooded and often covered moors, heaths, and fens rather than woodland. The term ‘forest’ had a legal meaning; it referred to an area that was under forest law (with its own courts and officials, known as verderers), in which deer and other game could be killed only by the forest owner, usually the king. Many forests were ‘disafforested’ in the first half of the 17th century. The Forestry Commission was established in 1919 to restore the losses to native...
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A Dictionary of Computer Science (7 ed.)
... A directed graph that is a collection of trees . If the root is removed from a tree together with the arcs emanating from that root, the resulting collection of subtrees forms a forest...
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A Dictionary of Biology (8 ed.)
...forest An area of vegetation in which the dominant plants are trees; forests constitute major biomes . Temperate forests have adequate or abundant rainfall and moderate temperatures. They may be dominated by deciduous trees (such as oak, ash, elm, beech, or maple), often growing together to form mixed deciduous forest, as in temperate regions of Europe, Asia, and North America; or by broad-leaved evergreens (such as southern beech, Nothofagus ), as in Chile. Cold forests, of northern regions, are dominated by evergreen conifers ( see taiga ). Tropical...
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The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
... The popular sense of the word is of a dense wood, but medieval forests were never more than partly wooded and often covered moors , heaths , and fens rather than woodland. They were varied in character and size; for example, the Peak Forest in the High Peak of Derbyshire was very different from Wychwood Forest (Oxfordshire) or from the Forest of Dean (Gloucestershire). The term ‘forest’ had a legal meaning; it referred to an area that was under forest law (with its own courts and officials, known as verderers ), in which deer and other game could be...
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A Dictionary of Plant Sciences (4 ed.)
...land set aside as forest was not necessarily tree-covered, especially in the uplands, and might include open heath, grass, and bog , as well as wooded areas. Most of the land formerly under forest law has been disafforested, although a district may still bear the ‘forest’ designation, e.g. ‘Dartmoor Forest’. Some Crown forests, never disafforested, came to be used for growing timber, especially for shipbuilding, and today are managed by the Forestry Commission, e.g. New Forest, Forest of Dean. 4. To plant with...
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A Dictionary of Ecology (5 ed.)
...and might include open heathland , grassland , and bog , as well as wooded areas. Most of the land formerly under forest law has been disafforested ( see deforestation ), although a district may still bear the ‘forest’ designation (e.g. ‘Dartmoor Forest’). Some Crown forests, never disafforested, came to be used for growing timber, especially for ship-building, and today they are managed by the Forestry Commission (e.g. New Forest, Forest of Dean). 3 To plant with trees....
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Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
... US frequency (2010): 5076 1 French: topographic name for someone who lived in or near a royal forest, or a metonymic occupational name for a keeper or worker in one, from Old French forest ‘forest’; or a habitational name from (La) Forest, the name of several places in various parts of France. Unlike modern French forêt , forest was not simply a word for extensive woodland, but referred specifically to large wooded areas reserved by law for the king and his nobles to hunt in (see also English Forrest ). Compare Deforest and Laforest . 2 ...
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The Oxford Companion to Chaucer
...forest’ in The Squire's Tale (V.419–20), or the lioness who makes a dramatic appearance ‘out of the wode’ in the tale of Thisbe ( LGW 805–6). These ancient forests had other dangers too: Philomena is raped in a cave in a forest ( LGW 2310ff.). They were also the haunt of gods and goddesses, like Diana , ‘chaste goddesse of the wodes grene’ (whose devotee, the young Amazon Emily, loved ‘huntynge and venerye, | And for to walken in the wodes grene’, I.2308–9), or Venus who appears as huntress in the forest in the story of Dido ( LGW 1971ff.). This forest...
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A Dictionary of Human Geography
... A large area of woodland. In medieval Europe forest lands were owned by the sovereign and governed by separate laws, usually reserved for hunting and not necessarily covered in trees. The management of woodlands is informed by the interdisciplinary science of forestry, which addresses commercial, conservation, and recreational priorities. Forests are a challenge to capitalist economic systems because trees take much longer to grow to maturity than most investments and they have proved harder to breed selectively than crop plants ( Prudham 2005 ). See...
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Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
..., pursued up to the 13th c., reduced the forests to some thirteen million hectares and modified their structure. The decreased availability of timber had consequences even for monumental architecture . In the 14th c., the Hundred Years' War and the Black Death cut back the population by nearly one third and the forest developed once again. M. Devèze , Histoire des forêts , Paris, 1965. E. M. Yates , The Landscape of the New Forest in Medieval Times , London, 1985. R. Bechmann , Trees and Man. The Forest in the Middle Ages , New York, 1990. Roland...
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Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins (3 ed.)
...forest [ME] You would not necessarily link forest and foreign , but they have the same Latin root. Forest came via French from the Latin phrase forestis silva , literally ‘wood outside’, from foris ‘out of doors, outside’ and silva ‘a wood’. The first word moved into English and became our ‘forest’. In early use forest had a special legal sense. It was an area, usually belonging to the king, that was intended for hunting, a mixture of woodland, heath, scrub, and farmland not as thickly wooded as forests today. It had its own forest laws , and officers...
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A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation (3 ed.)
... stand An area of forest...
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A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation (3 ed.)
...forest A forest with a closed canopy...
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A Dictionary of Ecology (5 ed.)
...forest A category of vegetation comprising a variety of formations including tropical rain forest , tropical seasonal forest , monsoon forest , tropical montane forest , tropical subalpine rain forest , and thorn forest...
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A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation (3 ed.)
...forest A forest that is largely undisturbed by human activities. Contrast secondary forest...
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A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation (3 ed.)
... ecology The relationships between forest organisms and their environment...
