AFFORESTATION

Pronunciation (US):

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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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