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AFFORESTATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The conversion of bare or cultivated land into forest (originally for the purpose of hunting)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("afforestation" is a kind of...):
conversion (the act of changing from one use or function or purpose to another)
Derivation:
afforest (establish a forest on previously unforested land)
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