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afforestation

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13 lettersPart of speech nounSorted aaeffinoorsttStarts with AEnds with N0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the conversion of bare or cultivated land into forest (originally for the purpose of hunting)

Word origin

From Medieval Latin afforestātiō, from afforestāt-, past participial stem of afforestō (“to convert into a forest”) (from Latin ad- + Late Latin forestis (“forest”) + -ō (suffix forming verbs)), + Latin -iō (suffix forming action nouns). By surface analysis, afforest + -ation.

Used in a sentence

  • While, however, the military critic from Britain might concur in this, he might tell us that the afforestation of such a wilderness as is Natal, for instance, is too large an undertaking for practical consideration.
  • There are very few native trees in Iceland, primarily downy birch and rowan, but afforestation efforts are underway.

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