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单词 disforest
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Definition of disforest in English:

disforest

verb dɪsˈfɒrɪst
  • another term for disafforest
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The spread of the towns, the disforesting of the hills, and other causes are conspiring to destroy many of the conditions which made the Riviera of former days so happy a resort for the lovers of Nature.
    • The country was disforested by Charles the II.
    • As the fertility which they had at first found was, in the course of a few years, exhausted, it became necessary, either to provide a means of renewing it, or disforest another tract and bring it under cultivation.
    • In King John's time, as he observes, the whole county was a forest, and he disforested it.
    • The extensive area of growing timber at the Little Bush River will probably be its last refuge in that part of the country, so rapidly is the Banks Peninsula becoming disforested.
    • It was called Wotton-Underwood from its situation with respect to Bernwood forest, which was disforested by King James I.
    • At this time the lands were disforested.
    • The worse thing is that people in the remote mountain area, in order to survive, disforest unrestrictedly.
    • These bush-burnings have effectually disforested the land, and in some places building timber and even fuel have become scarce.
    • It sometimes happens nowadays that people disforest vast territories without official permissions, illegally and then set fire to what remains after the illegal cutting.
    • The forests were disforested and enclosed in the early 17th century.
    • The most epidemiological important are reservoirs, such as some marsupials, edentates and rodents, because of their habits and favorable circumstantial local conditions, as disforesting, weeding and plowing, are capable to approximate to humans and play a significant role in linking the sylvatic and domestic cycles of the parasite.
    • I can also recall the commotion caused by the disforesting of Malvern Chase, A.D.1632, and the riots and misdemeanours which arose in consequence.
    • The settlement locations were disforested, but agricultural holdings were established with minimal disafforestation.
    • And this, moreover, is largely supported by the Cornish name of the mount, and we know from our own ancient history that Cornwall was largely disforested in the reign of King John.

Derivatives

  • disforestation

  • noundɪsˌfɒrɪˈsteɪʃ(ə)n
    • As the diffusion of the broom it is concerned, it has to be considered that this kind of plant grows very well in the volcanic area, and particularly in those areas destroyed by fires and disforestation, as it is a ` pioneer’ plant.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Until the disforestation of Wychwood, Leafield was surrounded by woodland and developed as an isolated village, distinctly different in character from the surrounding area.
      • It represents the progress of disforestation since the early Neolithic and the presumed correspondence with the pattern of interglacial substages.
      • Before "disforestation of the commons" in 1860, anyone, by paying a nominal rent, might send sheep to feed on the mountains.
      • Chiefly for this reason the malt kilns were in 1549 closed for two years and a survey of disforestation for eight miles around was instituted.
 
 
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