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ghost forests

ghost forests is the plural of ghost forest.

Meaning of ghost forest

Noun

ghost forest (plural ghost forests)

  1. A stand of dead or dying trees in a relatively intact state, typically occurring in coastal areas where rising sea levels, saltwater intrusion, and other factors lead to gradual tree death, though occasionally occurring in inland areas where a dam created a lake over a forest or where a forest has been killed by something.

Questions about ghost forests

What is ghost forests the plural of?
Ghost forests is the plural of ghost forest.

Words near ghost forests in the dictionary

  1. ghost fleet
  2. ghost fleets
  3. ghost flight
  4. ghost flights
  5. ghost forest
  6. ghost forests
  7. ghost frog
  8. ghost frogs
  9. ghost from one's past
  10. ghost fungi
  11. ghost fungus

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