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Lost Forty

Lost Forty proper noun: a region of Chippewa National Forest that was never logged, due to a mapmaking error, and contains some of the state's oldest forests.

Proper noun

the Lost Forty

  1. A region of Chippewa National Forest that was never logged, due to a mapmaking error, and contains some of the state's oldest forests.

Questions about Lost Forty

What does Lost Forty mean?
Lost Forty means a region of Chippewa National Forest that was never logged, due to a mapmaking error, and contains some of the state's oldest forests.
What part of speech is Lost Forty?
Lost Forty is a proper noun.

Words near Lost Forty in the dictionary

  1. lost decades
  2. lost errand
  3. lost errands
  4. lost face
  5. lost for words
  6. Lost Forty
  7. lost generation
  8. lost ground
  9. lost heart
  10. lost highway
  11. Lost Hills

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