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Forest tree

Forest \For"est\, a. Of or pertaining to a forest; sylvan. Forest fly. (Zo["o]l.)

  1. One of numerous species of blood-sucking flies, of the family Tabanid[ae], which attack both men and beasts. See Horse fly.

  2. A fly of the genus Hippobosca, esp. H. equina. See Horse tick.

    Forest glade, a grassy space in a forest.
    --Thomson.

    Forest laws, laws for the protection of game, preservation of timber, etc., in forests.

    Forest tree, a tree of the forest, especially a timber tree, as distinguished from a fruit tree.

Usage examples of "forest tree".

Sleep was something that had been in short supply, and if I hadn't had that twenty-four hour rest in the forest tree I daresay I'd have gone right off as though drugged.

Ahead is the place where the last tree had fallen, but, as Majer Weylt had told him eightdays before, there is no sign that a Forest tree had ever toppled across the ward-wall.

Then, with the power of the massive reborn forest behind it, the Forest Tree Song hit the milling ranks of the Skraeling army.

The door was heavy and thick, made of wood from a swamp-forest tree and hung by great metal hinges in a solid frame.

He felt burned out, blackened like a forest tree after the fire has passed, leaving the hollowed-out trunk continuing to smoulder within.