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Definition of wildwood in English: wildwoodnoun ˈwʌɪldwʊdˈwaɪldwʊd literary An uncultivated wood or forest that has been allowed to grow naturally. Example sentencesExamples - An essay on the English countryside by Oliver Rackham demonstrates that medieval England had no wildwood, but instead different forms of land management even on noncultivated land: heath, fen, moorland, grassland, and woodland.
- Scotland has lost almost all its native wildwood to over-grazing by sheep and cattle, and here is the chance to recreate a sizeable slice of that leafy lost world.
- These old trees are the result not of the wildwood (of the Ice Age 13 millennia before) but of wooded pasture.
- There was heroic, life-shortening labour in hacking the earliest fields out of the post-glacial wildwood and scrub, but nothing to envy save the sheer fortitude of those who accomplished it.
- Isn't it to do with being a man-at-arms, with strapping on armour and sallying forth into the wildwood on your horse, your lady's token on your arm, to right wrongs and do great deeds?
Definition of wildwood in US English: wildwoodnounˈwīldwo͝odˈwaɪldwʊd literary An uncultivated wood or forest that has been allowed to grow naturally. Example sentencesExamples - An essay on the English countryside by Oliver Rackham demonstrates that medieval England had no wildwood, but instead different forms of land management even on noncultivated land: heath, fen, moorland, grassland, and woodland.
- Isn't it to do with being a man-at-arms, with strapping on armour and sallying forth into the wildwood on your horse, your lady's token on your arm, to right wrongs and do great deeds?
- There was heroic, life-shortening labour in hacking the earliest fields out of the post-glacial wildwood and scrub, but nothing to envy save the sheer fortitude of those who accomplished it.
- Scotland has lost almost all its native wildwood to over-grazing by sheep and cattle, and here is the chance to recreate a sizeable slice of that leafy lost world.
- These old trees are the result not of the wildwood (of the Ice Age 13 millennia before) but of wooded pasture.
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