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REFORESTATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does reforestation mean?
• REFORESTATION (noun)
The noun REFORESTATION has 1 sense:
1. the restoration (replanting) of a forest that had been reduced by fire or cutting
Familiarity information: REFORESTATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The restoration (replanting) of a forest that had been reduced by fire or cutting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
re-afforestation; reforestation
Hypernyms ("reforestation" is a kind of...):
reclamation; rehabilitation; renewal (the conversion of wasteland into land suitable for use of habitation or cultivation)
Derivation:
reforest (forest anew)
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