forest

«forest» in Mova's school dictionary: a large area of land covered thickly with trees and plants — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a forest, forests)

meaning for a pupil

1) A forest is a large area of land covered thickly with trees and plants. tree →

2) A forest of something is a large number of tall things close together: a forest of hands. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science and geography: forests are habitats for many animals, give oxygen, store carbon and hold soil; types include rainforest (hot, wet, near the equator), deciduous forest (trees lose leaves in autumn) and coniferous forest (evergreens). In safety: stay on the paths, tell an adult where you go, never light fires in a dry forest. In fairy tales, the dark forest is often a place of danger and adventure. Phrases: rainforest, forest fire, deep in the forest.

examples

• We walked through the forest on a path. tree →
• The Amazon is the largest rainforest. tree →
• Many animals live in the forest. tree →
• A forest fire can spread very fast. tree →
• Hansel and Gretel got lost in the forest. tree →
• Trees in the forest lose their leaves in autumn. tree →
• Cutting down forests harms wildlife. tree →
• A forest of hands went up when the teacher asked a question. tree →

note

Countable. A forest is bigger and wilder than a wood or woods. «Rainforest» is one word. Forests are not empty: they are full of life, from fungi to birds.

In the corpora

• Wild orangutans live only on Borneo and Sumatra and are critically endangered, largely because forests were cut down for palm oil farms.
• A tiger needs a large territory, so saving tigers also saves big areas of forest and all the animals in it.
• Every rainy season the Amazon rises by up to ten metres or more and floods huge areas of forest for months.
• Duikers are small forest antelopes whose name means diver in Afrikaans, because they plunge into thick bushes to escape.
• The African forest buffalo is a smaller, reddish cousin of the savanna buffalo, with swept-back horns that fit dense forest.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «forest» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.