This section is from the book "The Home Cyclopedia Of General Information", by Charles Morris. Also available from Amazon: Home Cyclopedia of Necessary Knowledge.
[Fr., from L.foris, out of doors.] A large piece of country covered with trees, or an unenclosed, uncultivated land on which wild animals are hunted. Forest-tree is a tree of the forest, grown for its timber, as distinguished from a fruit-tree.
 
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