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Deforestation vs Disboscation - What's the difference?

deforestation | disboscation |

As nouns the difference between deforestation and disboscation

is that deforestation is deforestation while disboscation is deforestation for the purpose of creating cleared arable land for farming.

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

    disboscation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • deforestation for the purpose of creating cleared arable land for farming.

    • Related terms

    * deforestation