Thesaurus:forest

Thesaurus

forest

English

Noun

Sense: a dense collection of trees covering a relatively large area

Synonyms

• forest
• woods
• woodland

Hyponyms

• backwoods
• boscage
• bosk
• bosque
• brake
• cloud forest
• coppice
• copse
• cover
• covert    [⇒ thesaurus]
• frith
• gallery forest
• greenwood
• grove
• growth
• hammock
• holt
• hurst
• jungle
• thicket
• old-growth forest
• primeval forest
• rainforest
• ruffmans (archaic cant)
• scrub
• spinney
• taiga
• timberland
• virgin forest
• weald
• wildwood
• wold (obsolete sense)
• wood lot
• woodlot
• beechwood
• birchwood
• oakwood
• pineland
• pinewood
• pineyard

Meronyms

• tree    [⇒ thesaurus]
• bush
• shrub
• grass    [⇒ thesaurus]
• moss
• undergrowth
• foliage

Various

• timber
• arboretum
• orchard
• pinetum
• stand

Further reading

• “367. vegetable” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “forest” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.