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SECOND GROWTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does second growth mean? 

SECOND GROWTH (noun)
  The noun SECOND GROWTH has 1 sense:

1. a second growth of trees covering an area where the original stand was destroyed by fire or cuttingplay

  Familiarity information: SECOND GROWTH used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SECOND GROWTH (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A second growth of trees covering an area where the original stand was destroyed by fire or cutting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("second growth" is a kind of...):

forest; wood; woods (the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area)


 Context examples 


Assuming that 100 percent of the second growth persists and regenerates over 40 years, carbon storage capacity doubles in young second growth and increases by 120 percent in intermediate age forests.

(Natural regeneration of tropical forests helps global climate mitigation and forest restoration, NSF)

The woods on either side were primeval, which are more easily penetrated than woods of the second growth, and we had no great difficulty in carrying our canoes through them.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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