afforestation
Meanings
Plural: afforestations
Noun
- the conversion of bare or cultivated land into forest (originally for the purpose of hunting)
- The act or process of creating a new forest where none had existed before, or reforestation of areas long deforested.
Origin / Etymology
From Medieval Latin afforestātiō, from afforestāt-, past participial stem of afforestō (“to convert into a forest”) (from Latin ad- + Late Latin forestis (“forest”) + -ō (suffix forming verbs)), + Latin -iō (suffix forming action nouns). By surface analysis, afforest + -ation.
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