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old-growth

old-growth adjective: from, in, or pertaining to, an old-growth forest; having mature trees or other plants.

Adjective

old-growth (not comparable)

  1. From, in, or pertaining to, an old-growth forest; having mature trees or other plants.
    • While on a walk the next morning I found what looked like a patch of old growth habitat - perhaps somewhere the fires had missed - and to my astonishment saw a female Red-lored Whistler accompanied by an immature.2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 240
    • Moving about 70 miles per hour, it crashed through the sturdy old-growth trees, snapping their limbs and shredding bark from their trunks.2012 December 26, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2013

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Questions about old-growth

What does old-growth mean?
Old-growth means from, in, or pertaining to, an old-growth forest; having mature trees or other plants.
What part of speech is old-growth?
Old-growth is an adjective.

Words near old-growth in the dictionary

  1. old-fashionedly
  2. old-fashionedness
  3. old-fashioneds
  4. old-field colt
  5. old-field colts
  6. old-growth
  7. old-growth forest
  8. old-growth forests
  9. old-hat
  10. old-line
  11. old-maidenism

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