afforestation

English

Etymology

From Latin ad + forresta, forestis

Noun

afforestation (countable and uncountable, plural afforestations)

  1. The act or process of creating a new forest where none had existed before, or reforestation of areas long deforested.
    • March 1920, Alice Ballantine Kirjassoff, “FORMOSA THE BEAUTIFUL”, in National Geographic Magazine, page 265:
      At first the Japanese, too, were careless in this respect, for the supply of camphor trees seemed practically limitless, but the great increase in the demand for the product in late years has made scientific afforestation necessary.

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