Synonyms of the word

forest

• n. A dense collection of trees covering a relatively large area. Larger than woods.
• n. Any dense collection or amount.
• n. (historical) A defined area of land set aside in England as royal hunting ground or for other privileged…
• n. (graph theory) A graph with no cycles; i.e., a graph made up of trees.
• n. (computing, Microsoft Windows) A group of domains that are managed as a unit.
• v. (transitive) To cover an area with trees.

afforest

• v. (transitive) To make into forest.

biome

• n. Any major regional biological community such as that of forest or desert.
• n. All the genomes of such a community.

botany

• n. (uncountable) The scientific study of plants, a branch of biology. Typically those disciplines that involve…
• n. The plant life of a geographical area.
• n. The properties and life phenomena exhibited by a plant, plant type, or plant group.
• n. (countable) A botanical treatise or study, especially of a particular system of botany or that of a particular…

earth

• p.n. Our planet, third out from the Sun; see main entry Earth.
• n. (uncountable) Soil.
• n. (uncountable) Any general rock-based material.
• n. The ground, land (as opposed to the sky or sea).
• n. (Britain) A connection electrically to the earth ((US) ground); on equipment: a terminal connected in…
• n. A fox's home or lair.
• n. The world of our current life (as opposed to heaven or an afterlife).
• n. (alchemy) One of the four basic elements.
• n. (India and Japan) One of the five basic elements.
• n. (Taoism) One of the five basic elements.
• v. (Britain) To connect electrically to the earth.
• v. To bury.
• v. (transitive) To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den.
• v. To burrow.

flora

• n. plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.
• n. a book describing the plants of a country etc.
• n. The microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body, such as intestinal flora.

ground

• n. (uncountable) The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.
• n. (uncountable) Terrain.
• n. (uncountable) Soil, earth.
• n. (countable) The bottom of a body of water.
• n. Basis, foundation, groundwork, legwork.
• n. Reason, (epistemic) justification, cause.
• n. Background, context, framework, surroundings.
• n. The plain surface upon which the figures of an artistic composition are set.
• n. In sculpture, a flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief.
• n. In point lace, the net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied.
• n. In etching, a gummy substance spread over the surface of a metal to be etched, to prevent the acid from…
• n. (architecture, chiefly in the plural) One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which mouldings…
• n. (countable) A soccer stadium.
• n. (electricity, Canada and US) An electrical conductor connected to the ground.
• n. (electricity, Canada and US) A level of electrical potential used as a zero reference.
• n. (countable, cricket) The area of grass on which a match is played (a cricket field); the entire arena…
• n. (music) A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually…
• n. (music) The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song.
• n. The pit of a theatre.
• v. (US) To connect (an electrical conductor or device) to a ground.
• v. (transitive) To punish, especially a child or teenager, by forcing him/her to stay at home and/or give…
• v. (transitive) To forbid (an aircraft or pilot) to fly.
• v. To give a basic education in a particular subject; to instruct in elements or first principles.
• v. (baseball) to hit a ground ball; to hit a ground ball which results in an out. Compare fly (verb(regular))…
• v. (cricket) (of a batsman) to place his bat, or part of his body, on the ground behind the popping crease…
• v. (intransitive) To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed.
• v. To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, reason, or principle; to furnish a ground for; to fix firmly.
• v. (fine arts) To cover with a ground, as a copper plate for etching, or as paper or other materials with…
• v. To improve or focus the mental or emotional state of.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of grind.
• adj. Crushed, or reduced to small particles.
• adj. Processed by grinding.

land

• n. The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
• n. Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and on which buildings…
• n. A country or region.
• n. A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
• n. The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
• n. A general country, state, or territory.
• n. (often in combination) realm, domain.
• n. (agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is…
• n. (Ireland, colloquial) A fright.
• n. (electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
• n. In a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
• n. (travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
• n. (obsolete) The ground or floor.
• n. (nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called…
• n. In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is…
• v. (intransitive) To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
• v. (dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
• v. (intransitive) To come into rest.
• v. (intransitive) To arrive at land, especially a shore, or a dock, from a body of water.
• v. (transitive) To bring to land.
• v. (transitive) To acquire; to secure.
• v. (transitive) To deliver.
• adj. Of or relating to land.
• adj. Residing or growing on land.
• n. lant; urine.

plant

• n. (botany) An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically…
• n. (botany) An organism of the kingdom Plantae; now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land…
• n. (ecology) Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have…
• n. (proscribed as biologically inaccurate) Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including…
• n. A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
• n. An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.
• n. Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).
• n. A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.
• n. (snooker) A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the…
• n. (uncountable) Machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction.
• n. (obsolete) A young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
• n. (obsolete) The sole of the foot.
• n. (dated, slang) A plan; a swindle; a trick.
• n. An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
• n. (US, dialect) A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
• v. (transitive) To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
• v. (transitive) To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
• v. (transitive) To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
• v. To place in the ground.
• v. To furnish or supply with plants.
• v. To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
• v. To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.
• v. To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.
• v. To set up; to install; to instate.

set

• v. (transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.
• v. (transitive) To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
• v. (transitive) To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
• v. (transitive, dated) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.
• v. (transitive) To determine or settle.
• v. (transitive) To adjust.
• v. (transitive) To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
• v. (transitive) To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
• v. (transitive) To introduce or describe.
• v. (transitive) To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to.
• v. (transitive) To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
• v. (transitive) To prepare (a stage or film set).
• v. (transitive) To fit (someone) up in a situation.
• v. (transitive) To arrange (type).
• v. (transitive) To devise and assign (work) to.
• v. (transitive, volleyball) To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
• v. (intransitive) To solidify.
• v. (transitive) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
• v. (intransitive) Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
• v. (transitive, bridge) To defeat a contract.
• v. (obsolete, now followed by "out", as in set out) To begin to move; to go forth.
• v. (intransitive, of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
• v. (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To sit (be in a seated position).
• v. To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
• v. (hunting, transitive, intransitive) Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
• v. (obsolete) To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly; to set out.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To fit music to words.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
• v. To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
• v. To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
• v. To place or fix in a setting.
• v. To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
• v. To extend and bring into position; to spread.
• v. To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
• v. To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
• v. (masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
• v. (obsolete) To wager in gambling; to risk.
• v. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
• v. (obsolete) To value; to rate; used with at.
• v. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
• v. (Scotland) To suit; to become.
• n. A punch for setting nails in wood.
• n. A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
• n. Alternative form of sett: a hole made and lived in by a badger.
• n. Alternative form of sett: pattern of threads and yarns.
• n. Alternative form of sett: piece of quarried stone.
• n. (horticulture) A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
• n. The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
• n. (obsolete, rare) That which is staked; a wager; hence, a gambling game.
• n. (engineering) Permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending,…
• n. (piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached…
• n. (printing, dated) The width of the body of a type.
• n. A young oyster when first attached.
• n. Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
• n. A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun).
• n. (colloquial) The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
• n. The camber of a curved roofing tile.
• adj. Fixed in position.
• adj. Rigid, solidified.
• adj. Ready, prepared.
• adj. Intent, determined (to do something).
• adj. Prearranged.
• adj. Fixed in one’s opinion.
• adj. (of hair) Fixed in a certain style.
• n. A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
• n. A rudimentary fruit.
• n. The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
• n. (literally and figuratively) General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
• n. A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 1, Noun.).
• n. A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
• n. An object made up of several parts.
• n. (set theory) A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order…
• n. (in plural, “sets”, mathematics, informal) Set theory.
• n. A group of people, usually meeting socially.
• n. The scenery for a film or play.
• n. (dance) The initial or basic formation of dancers.
• n. (exercise (sport)) A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
• n. (tennis) A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
• n. (volleyball) A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
• n. (volleyball) The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
• n. (music) A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
• n. (music) A drum kit, a drum set.
• n. (Britain, education) A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
• n. (poker, slang) Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is a on the board…
• v. (Britain, education) To divide a class group in a subject according to ability.

timber

• n. (uncountable) Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
• n. (Britain, uncountable) Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.
• n. (countable) A heavy wooden beam, generally a whole log that has been squared off and used to provide heavy…
• n. (firearms, informal) The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.
• n. (archaic) A certain quantity of fur skins (as of martens, ermines, sables, etc.) packed between boards;…
• n. (music) A misspelling of timbre, the quality of a musical note or sound or tone, independent of its pitch…
• interj. Used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.
• v. (transitive) To fit with timbers.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To construct, frame, build.
• v. (falconry, intransitive) To light or land on a tree.
• v. (obsolete) To make a nest.
• v. To surmount as a timber does.

timberland

• n. Forested land thought of in terms of its potential and value as timber.

vegetation

• n. (uncountable) Plants, taken collectively.
• n. (pathology, countable) An abnormal verrucous or fibrinous growth.
• n. The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.

wood

• n. (uncountable) The substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree. Used as a…
• n. (countable) The wood of a particular species of tree.
• n. (countable) A forested or wooded area.
• n. Firewood.
• n. (countable, golf) A type of golf club, the head of which was traditionally made of wood.
• n. (music) A woodwind instrument.
• n. (uncountable, slang) An erection of the penis.
• n. (chess, uncountable, slang) Chess pieces.
• v. (transitive) To cover or plant with trees.
• v. (transitive) To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for.
• v. To take or get a supply of wood.
• adj. (obsolete) Mad, insane, crazed.
• n. (US, sometimes offensive, chiefly prison slang, of a person) A peckerwood.

woodland

• adj. Of a creature or object: growing, living, or existing in a woodland.
• adj. (obsolete) Having the character of a woodland.
• n. Land covered with woody vegetation.

woods

• n. plural of wood.
• n. (uncountable) A dense collection of trees covering a relatively small area; smaller than a forest.
• n. (Military) For chemical behavior purposes, trees in full leaf (coniferous or medium-dense deciduous forests).
• v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wood.