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forestine

forestine adjective: of or relating to a forest.

Adjective

forestine (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to a forest.
    • Farther in, however, the clan names grow rarer; and where we find them they are not hams or tuns, regular communities of Saxon settlers, but they show, by their forestine terminations of hurst, ley, den, and field, that they were mere outlying shelters of hunters or swineherds in the trackless...1892, Grant Allen, Science in Arcady

Origin of forestine

From forest + -ine.

Questions about forestine

What does forestine mean?
Forestine means of or relating to a forest.
What part of speech is forestine?
Forestine is an adjective.

Words near forestine in the dictionary

  1. Forestier's disease
  2. forestiera
  3. forestieras
  4. Forestiers
  5. forestification
  6. forestine
  7. foresting
  8. forestish
  9. forestization
  10. forestkeeper
  11. forestkeepers

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