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cryptoforest

noun

Etymology

Coined by Wilfred Hou Je Bek as crypto- + forest

  1. derived from *furhisti✻ — “forest, fir-grove, wooded land”
  2. derived from forestis
  3. derived from forest
  4. inherited from forest
  5. prefixed as cryptoforest — “crypto + forest”

Definitions

  1. A tree-filled area that is not considered a forest, typically a previously developed area…

    A tree-filled area that is not considered a forest, typically a previously developed area which has reverted to wild growth.

    • At the moment he is documenting and theorizing the weed systems and cryptoforest of the g/local Amazon.
    • Such cryptozoological phenomena reported on the marshes are easier to understand if you view the area as a cryptoforest.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for cryptoforest. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA