Noun

(en noun)

A dense collection of trees covering a relatively large area. Larger than woods.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=29, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Unspontaneous combustion , passage=Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.}}

Any dense collection or amount.

forest of criticism.

(historical) A defined area of land set aside in England as royal hunting ground or for other privileged use; all such areas.

* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=

, title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2 citation , passage=Throughout the 1500s, the populace roiled over a constellation of grievances of which the forest' emerged as a key focal point. The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the ' forest , dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.}}

(graph theory) A disjoint union of trees.

Noun

(en noun)

A subarctic zone of evergreen coniferous forests situated south of the tundras and north of the steppes in the Northern Hemisphere.

* 2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 197:

The mountains run from the Arctic Island of Novaya Zemlya southwards, dividing the endless wastes of the Siberian taiga and the steppes from the Russian platform in the west.

* 2006 , (Thomas Pynchon), Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 871:

Like the taiga , he was everywhere, and mysterious—a heroic being with unearthly gifts.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-03

, author=Nancy Langston , title=Mining the Boreal North , volume=101, issue=2, page=98 , magazine= citation , passage=Reindeer are well suited to the taiga ’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.}}