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forewold

forewold noun: a zone of thickets around a forest.

Noun

forewold (plural forewolds)

  1. (obsolete, rare) A zone of thickets around a forest.
    • Passing through the heliophilous poads and poophytes, we arrived at a forewold abounding in driodads and sciophytes, the cyriodoche of the latter being somewhat interfered with by pyrium and ecballium; further on, hylads, hylodads, and hylophytes diversified the scene.1905, Journal of Botany, British and Foreign, Robert Hardwicke, page 335

Forms of forewold

pluralforewolds

Questions about forewold

What does forewold mean?
Forewold means a zone of thickets around a forest.
What part of speech is forewold?
Forewold is a noun.
What is the plural of forewold?
The plural of forewold is forewolds.

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