disafforestation

Meanings

Plural: disafforestations

Noun

The change in the legal status of an area from forest to that of normal land, entailing the loss of forest laws.
Deforestation.

Origin / Etymology

From post-classical Latin disafforestātiō (13th cent.), from the participial stem of Latin disafforestō. By surface analysis, disafforest + -ation.

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