(n.) An extensive wood; a large tract of land covered with trees; in the United States, a wood of native growth, or a tract of woodland which has never been cultivated.
(n.) A large extent or precinct of country, generally waste and woody, belonging to the sovereign, set apart for the keeping of game for his use, not inclosed, but distinguished by certain limits, and protected by certain laws, courts, and officers of its own.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a forest; sylvan.
(v. t.) To cover with trees or wood.
Example Sentences:
(1) A golden toad (Bufo periglenes) in Monteverde Cloud forest reserve in Puntarenas province of Costa Rica.
(2) In conjunction with the development of a computerized goal-oriented record system at Forest Hospital Des Plaines, Illinois, research staff developed a psychiatric goal list from goal statements most frequently used at the hospital.
(3) Celebrity woodlanders Tax breaks and tree-hugging already draw the wealthy and well-known to buy British forests.
(4) As yet there is no evidence that the occurrence of savanna flies in the rain forest zone of Liberia was of epidemiological significance.
(5) James Goodman, chairman of the Wyre Forest GPs' Association, said: "We didn't necessarily fully support the changes at the start of the process.
(6) The report warned that 24m acres of unprotected forest lands across the southeastern US are at risk, largely from European biomass operations.
(7) Ecologic studies of small mammals in Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP) were conducted in 1974 in order to identify the specific habitats within the Lower Montane Forest that support Colorado tick fever (CTF) virus.
(8) Mice pretreated with Bru-Pel were protected against challenge with otherwise lethal doses of Semliki Forest virus.
(9) Israeli policemen search the area after a body of a Palestinian youth was found in a Jerusalem's forest area.
(10) No sick or dead monkeys were found in all the forests checked around Entebbe area during the epizootic.
(11) Countries would have to show, from historical data, satellite imagery and through direct measurement of trees, the extent, condition and the carbon content of their forests.
(12) It forecasts the pressure on forests will increase as world population grows by more than 2.5 billion people in the next 40 years.
(13) I salute you.” So clear-fall logging and burning of the tallest flowering forests on the planet, with provision for the dynamiting of trees over 80 metres tall, is an ultimate good in Abbott’s book of ecological wisdom.
(14) This paper reports selected results of a quantitative study of the affective behavior of the Efe, exchange-dependent hunter-gatherers of the Ituri forest in northeastern Zaire.
(15) In the southern state of Karnataka, corruption is blamed for uncontrolled mining in vast areas of protected forest.
(16) The well drained soils of the Suiá--Missu forest are very uniform, deep latosols (oxisols) of very dystrophic nature with pH (in water) between 4.0 and 5.0 (see table 2, p. 203).
(17) Tree deaths Higher rates of tree death and forest dieback have been increasingly attributed to climate change.
(18) Days and Nights in the Forest , which began as a comedy about Calcuttan gents on safari for aboriginal villagers, before shading into something almost too dark for my comprehension.
(19) The Semliki Forest virus spike subunit E2, a membrane-spanning protein, was transported to the plasma membrane in BHK cells after its carboxy terminus, including the intramembranous and cytoplasmic portions, was replaced by respective fragments of either the vesicular stomatitis virus glycoprotein or the fowl plague virus hemagglutinin.
(20) The antibody response against flaviviruses tick-borne encephalitis (TBE), Kyasanur Forest disease (KFD), Murray Valley encephalitis (MVE), West Nile fever (WNF), Japanese B encephalitis (JE), dengue 2 (DEN-2), and yellow fever (YF) was studied in humans after administration of an inactivated TBE virus vaccine.
Weald
Definition:
(n.) A wood or forest; a wooded land or region; also, an open country; -- often used in place names.
Example Sentences:
(1) The ship has joined vessels from Italy , Germany and Ireland in the international mission codenamed Operation Weald.
(2) During both of my visits to the camp I met residents who fear seeing their countryside devastated, who cannot understand why the government has given permission to drill in Lower Stumble, even though the site is located in the High Weald, designated an "area of outstanding natural eauty".
(3) According to Kent county council, the new building is an annexe of an existing girls’ grammar school, Weald of Kent in Tonbridge, and therefore legal because grammars are still allowed to expand.
(4) It was left to Sunand Prasad, president of the RIBA, to point out how such recent buildings as the Downland Gridshell and the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum in West Sussex by Ted Cullinan, and even the structure of Richard Rogers's Barajas airport terminal in Madrid, were shaped by elemental forms found in nature as much as the architecture admired by the prince.
(5) The long-awaited report by the British Geological Survey (BGS) concludes that "a reasonable central estimate for shale oil is 4.4bn barrels in the ground" in the Weald basin – an area which lies under Kent, Sussex, Surrey and Hampshire.
(6) The energy minister Michael Fallon denied he was disappointed that the BGS report said there was no shale gas in the Weald.
(7) It’s not a place we really want to go,” said Peter Woodman, headteacher of the Weald school in Billingshurst.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Year 7 pupils at morning break time at Weald of Kent grammar school.
(9) The oil industry has known since the second world war about the traditional oil reserves in the Weald area and 13 wells are currently in production.
(10) Kent county council claims the Sevenoaks grammar would be a satellite of Weald of Kent, with the same headteacher, curriculum and philosophy.
(11) But the BGS conclusion that "there is unlikely to be any shale-gas potential" in the Weald area is a major blow to ministers' wider hopes that shale could be found throughout the country.
(12) The original proposal, for a new co-educational annexe to the Weald of Kent girls’ grammar school in Tonbridge, a full 10 miles away, was rejected by Michael Gove in 2013 and a revised single-sex proposal submitted in November 2014.
(13) A British Geological Survey (BGS) report on Friday said that the Weald basin, a Jurassic geological structure stretching from Wiltshire to Kent, between the North and South Downs, contained a large shale oil deposit.
(14) Government hopes that Britain can emulate the US by starting a shale-gas revolution have been knocked back after a long-awaited report unexpectedly concluded there was no potential in fracking for gas in the Weald region of southern England.
(15) The Weald basin includes the South Downs national park and several areas of outstanding national beauty.
(16) There is a good view across 15 miles of the Sussex Weald to Ashdown Forest.
(17) Weald of Kent already gets a lot of girls from Sevenoaks.” But for Mary Boyle, head of Knole academy, one of two all-ability schools in Sevenoaks, “an annexe is an outbuilding or a shed on the school property.
(18) And it is quite a journey, a cross-section of Sussex, cutting through the South Downs and the Weald, past fields, copses, sheep, cows and tractors, starlings and stately homes.
(19) Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian Bower admits there are many girls from wealthy backgrounds at Weald of Kent.
(20) There are two main routes from the Weald to the proposed annexe: one along winding roads that go through the shopping centre of Sevenoaks, the other along the busy A21.