What is the difference between woodland and forest?
woodland | forest | Synonyms |
Land covered with woody vegetation.
* Alexander Pope
* Bancroft
* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
, title=Internal Combustion
, chapter=2 Of or pertaining to a creature or object growing, living, or existing in a woodland.
* 1837 , “Picus''”, in Charles Frederick Partington (editor), ''The British Cyclopædia of Natural History , Volume 3, W. S. Orr & Co.,
* 1839 , , The Natural History of the Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, Part II: Incessories'', part of ''The Naturalist's Library , W.H. Lizars,
* 1890 July, , “My Islands”, in Longman's Magazine , Volume 16, Number 93,
* 1894 , R. Bowdler Sharpe, A Hand-Book to the Birds of Great Britain , Volume I, W. H. Allen & Co., Limited,
(obsolete) Having the character of a .
* {{quote-news, year=1827, author="Amateur", title=Northamptonshire, Huntingdonshire, and Bedfordshire Hunting, work=Sporting Magazine, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=yr4CAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA64, page=64
, passage=It is a very woodland country, with plenty of grass, but it is too large for four days a-week, and the sport is generally rather indifferent.}}
* {{quote-book, year=1835, author=, title=Nimrod's Hunting Tours, page=109, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=p-wIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA109
, passage=
* {{quote-book, year=1871, author=George Gill, title=Fourth Reader
, passage=Shortly after leaving Swindon the main line enters Wiltshire, and runs through an extremely woodland district to Chippenham
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= Any dense collection or amount.
(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 (graph theory) A disjoint union of trees.
Forest is a synonym of woodland.
As nouns the difference between woodland and forest
is that woodland is land covered with woody vegetation while forest is a dense collection of trees covering a relatively large area. Larger than woods.As an adjective woodland
is of or pertaining to a creature or object growing, living, or existing in a woodland.As a verb forest is
to cover an area with trees.woodland
English
(wikipedia woodland)Noun
(en noun)- Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, / Here earth and water seem to strive again.
- Woodlands and cultivated fields are harmoniously blended.
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 .}}
Synonyms
* timberland * forestAdjective
(en adjective)- The woodland creatures ran from the fire.
page 446:
- This species [
is a very little larger than the red-headed one; and it is more woodland in its manners; seldom appearing in orchards or near houses, but keeping to the tall trees in the close forests.
page 125–6:
- The genera Philomela'' and ''Curruca , as we previously observed, are very closely allied to each other, both are woodland in their habits, and both possess great melody of song.
page 341:
- It was a couple of hundred years or so more before I saw a third bullfinch — which didn't surprise me, for bullfinches are very woodland birds, and non-migratory into the bargain — so that they didn’t often get blown seaward over the broad Atlantic.
page 91:
- As its name implies, this species [
is a more woodland bird than the other British Larks, and in many of its ways of life it resembles the Tree Pipit, frequenting the neighborhood of woods and plantations, but always affecting trees.
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Anagrams
*forest
English
(wikipedia forest)Noun
(en noun)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.}}
- forest of criticism.
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.}}