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alsocole (verb), alsocoles; alsocoled; alsocoling: forest
Living in woody (forest) groves.

Some creatures that alsocole include the following:

  • Long-nosed Spiny Anteater is bigger than the short-nosed Ant Eater and it has fewer, shorter spines that are scattered in its hairs. Range: New Guinea
  • Short-nosed Spiny Anteater. Range: Australia, Tasmania, S.E. New Guinea
  • South American Mouse-opossum; Range: Belize to N.W. South America, Trinidad, Tobago, Grenada
  • Virginia Opossum; Range: Central America, Nicaragua
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forest
1. A dense growth of trees, plants, and underbrush covering a large area.
2. Something that resembles a large, dense growth of trees, as in density, quantity, or profusion: "New York is a forest of skyscrapers."
3. A defined area of land formerly set aside in England as a royal hunting ground.
4. Usually considered a learned borrowing from Late and Medieval Latin forestem silvam, the "outside woods".

The sense is generally taken to refer to "the woods lying outside the walls of a park, those that are not fenced in", from Latin foris, "outside"; literally, "out of doors", from a lost noun fora, related to foris "door", and altered from fura.

—Excerpts from The Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology,
Robert K. Barnhart, Editor; The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988.

Forest originally meant "the forest depending on the king's court of justice". Middle Latin forestis derives from Latin forum, "pubic place", used in its Middle Latin sense "court of justice".

A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language,
by Ernest Klein, Elsevier Publishing Company, New York, 1966.
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silvicole (verb), silvicoles; silvicoled; silvicoling: forest, woods
Living in woodlands.
This entry is located in the following unit: -cola, -colas; -cole; -colent; -colid; -coline; -colous (page 23)
sylvicole (verb), sylvicoles; sylvicoled; sylvicoling: forest, woods
Inhabiting or existing in woodlands.
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(Greek: forest, woods, a woodland)
(Greek: wood, forest, substance, matter; material, materialism)
(Greek: wooded pasture, glade; grove; woods, forest)
(Latin: woods, forest)
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Word Entries containing the term: “forest
coniferous-forest habitat (s) (noun), coniferous-forest habitats (pl)
Forest trees that thrive in areas where very few other species of trees can survive in cold and in mountain ranges: "The coniferous-forest habitats include redwoods, spruces, and firs."

"Coniferous trees produce cones and don't lose their needle-leaves in the winter and such habitats support a diversity of animal and other plants."

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patocole (verb), patocoles; patocoled; patocoling: forest litter
Inhabiting forest litter for only part of an organism's normal life cycle.
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rain forest
1. A tropical forest, usually of tall, densely growing, broad-leaved evergreen trees in an area of high annual rainfall.
2. A forest in a climate with high annual rainfall and no dry season.
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temperate-forest habitat (s) (noun), temperate-forest habitats (pl)
An environment that is between the tropics and the polar areas which are not subject to extreme temperatures: "The conditions of the temperate-forest habitats are determined by both the tropical and the polar air masses which provide a great deal of biodiversity."

"The extent of the temperate-forest habitats has been considerably diminished by people as they cut down so many trees."

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tropical forest (s) (noun), tropical forests (pl)
The richest wildlife habitat on earth: "The tropical forests are among the hottest and humid areas and they are usually supporting a diversity of lush botanical and zoological life; typically closest to the equator."

"There are multitudes of important ecosystems in the tropical forests; however, they are also vulnerable to destruction by humans."

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