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Deforestation vs Defloration - What's the difference?

deforestation | defloration |

As nouns the difference between deforestation and defloration

is that deforestation is the process of destroying a forest and replacing it with something else, especially by an agricultural system while defloration is the act of deflowering.

deforestation

English

(wikipedia deforestation)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The process of destroying a forest and replacing it with something else, especially by an agricultural system.
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    • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2 citation , passage=Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.}}

    Antonyms

    * afforestation * reforestation

    defloration

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • the act of deflowering

    • Derived terms

    * to deflorate * flower