Meuse
Meuse River
Argonne
Argonne Forest
Meuse-Argonne
Meuse-Argonne operation | an American operation in World War I (), American troops under Pershing drove back the German armies which were saved only by the armistice on November |
forest tent caterpillar
Malacosoma disstria | larvae of a gregarious North American moth that spins a web resembling a carpet rather than a tent, serious defoliator of deciduous trees |
forest goat
spindle horn
Pseudoryx nghetinhensis | cow-like creature with the glossy coat of a horse and the agility of a goat and the long horns of an antelope, characterized as a cow that lives the life of a goat |
grey snapper
gray snapper
mangrove snapper
Lutjanus griseus | found in shallow waters off the coast of Florida |
| forest fire | an uncontrolled fire in a wooded area |
forest
wood
woods | the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area |
rain forest
rainforest | a forest with heavy annual rainfall |
| temperate rain forest | a rain forest in a temperate area |
tropical rain forest
selva | a rain forest in a tropical area |
| Petrified Forest National Park | a national park in Arizona having the world's largest collection of petrified coniferous trees |
| New Forest | an area of woods and heathland in southern Hampshire that was set aside by William I as Crown property in , originally a royal hunting ground but now administered as parkland, noted for its ponies |
Black Forest
Schwarzwald | a hilly forest region in southwestern Germany |
forest
woodland
timberland
timber | land that is covered with trees and shrubs |
| riparian forest | woodlands along the banks of stream or river |
| Sherwood Forest | an ancient forest in central England, formerly a royal hunting ground, said to be the home of Robin Hood and his merry band |
satyr
forest god | one of a class of woodland deities, attendant on Bacchus, identified with Roman fauns |
fire warden
forest fire fighter
ranger | an official who is responsible for managing and protecting an area of forest |
De Forest
Lee De Forest
Father of Radio | United States electrical engineer who inpatented the first triode vacuum tube, which made it possible to detect and amplify radio waves (-) |
button tree
button mangrove
Conocarpus erectus | evergreen tree or shrub with fruit resembling buttons and yielding heavy hard compact wood |
| white mangrove Laguncularia racemosa | shrub to moderately large tree that grows in brackish water along the seacoasts of western Africa and tropical America, locally important as a source of tannin |
forest red gum
Eucalypt tereticornis | tall tree of Queensland and New South Wales and Victoria |
Rhizophoraceae
family Rhizophoraceae
mangrove family | trees and shrubs that usually form dense jungles along tropical seacoasts |
mangrove
Rhizophora mangle | a tropical tree or shrub bearing fruit that germinates while still on the tree and having numerous prop roots that eventually form an impenetrable mass and are important in land building |
| black mangrove Avicennia marina | a mangrove of the West Indies and the southern Florida coast, occurs in dense thickets and has numerous short roots that bend up from the ground |
| white mangrove Avicennia officinalis | a small to medium-sized tree growing in brackish water especially along the shores of the southwestern Pacific |
| black mangrove Aegiceras majus | an Australian tree resembling the black mangrove of the West Indies and Florida |
old growth
virgin forest | forest or woodland having a mature or overly mature ecosystem more or less uninfluenced by human activity |
afforest
forest | establish a forest on previously unforested land, afforest the mountains |