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# forest

«forest» in Mova's school dictionary: **a large area of land covered thickly with trees and plants** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a forest, forests)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A forest is a large area of land covered thickly with trees and plants. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forest/#m1)

2) A forest of something is a large number of tall things close together: a forest of hands. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forest/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science and geography: forests are habitats for many animals, give oxygen, store carbon and hold soil; types include rainforest (hot, wet, near the equator), deciduous forest (trees lose leaves in autumn) and coniferous forest (evergreens). In safety: stay on the paths, tell an adult where you go, never light fires in a dry forest. In fairy tales, the dark forest is often a place of danger and adventure. Phrases: rainforest, forest fire, deep in the forest.

### examples

- We walked through the forest on a path. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forest/#x1)
- The Amazon is the largest rainforest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forest/#x2)
- Many animals live in the forest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forest/#x3)
- A forest fire can spread very fast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forest/#x4)
- Hansel and Gretel got lost in the forest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forest/#x5)
- Trees in the forest lose their leaves in autumn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forest/#x6)
- Cutting down forests harms wildlife. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forest/#x7)
- A forest of hands went up when the teacher asked a question. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forest/#x8)

### note

Countable. A forest is bigger and wilder than a wood or woods. «Rainforest» is one word. Forests are not empty: they are full of life, from fungi to birds.

### In the corpora

- [Wild orangutans live only on Borneo and Sumatra and are critically endangered, largely because forests were cut down for palm oil farms.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/85-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos/7/)
- [A tiger needs a large territory, so saving tigers also saves big areas of forest and all the animals in it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/136-kung-fu-panda-real-tigers-and-cranes/11/)
- [Every rainy season the Amazon rises by up to ten metres or more and floods huge areas of forest for months.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/155-the-amazon-river/5/)
- [Duikers are small forest antelopes whose name means diver in Afrikaans, because they plunge into thick bushes to escape.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/159-the-congo-rainforest/17/)
- [The African forest buffalo is a smaller, reddish cousin of the savanna buffalo, with swept-back horns that fit dense forest.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/160-the-congo-river/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «forest» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forest/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.