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"forest" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often woods (5 letters).
Definitions
establish a forest on previously unforested land
Word origin
In this sense, mostly displaced the native Middle English wode, from Old English wudu (modern English wood) and Middle English wald, wold, wæld, from Old English wald, weald (modern English wald, weald, wold).
Used in a sentence
“Who after Archimagoes fowle defeat / Led her away into a foreſt wilde, / And turning wrathfull fyre to luſtfull heat, / With beaſtly ſin though her to haue defilde, / And made the vaſſal of his pleaſures vilde.”
“a forest of criticism”
“Squealing and still propelled by the kick, the calf scrabbled through the forest of legs and into the open.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer12 curated clues
01“Dense area of trees”6 letters
02“Dense stand of trees”6 letters
03“Dense woods”6 letters
04“Large wooded area”6 letters
05“Many trees together”6 letters
06“Place filled with trees”6 letters
07“Tree-filled area”6 letters
08“Wooded area”6 letters
09“Wooded area with trails”6 letters
10“Woods”6 letters
11“Woods with many trees”6 letters
12“Large area of trees”6 letters
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