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Afforest

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To convert (open land) into a forest by planting trees or their seeds.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To make into forest

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To convert into a forest.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To convert, as bare or cultivated land, into forest, as was done by the first Norman kings in England, for the purpose of providing themselves with hunting-grounds.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. establish a forest on previously unforested land

Word Usage

"A program to afforest denuded or severely eroded land has resulted in the planting of about one million trees in 70 areas subject to soil erosion."

Verb Form

afforested afforesting afforests

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

plant set

Hyponym

reafforest reforest

Form

afforestation afforestable