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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
old-growth
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
forest
▪ Like the northern spotted owl, the tiny bird is dependent on old-growth forests.
▪ The floors of old-growth forests tend to be fairly sterile because overhead canopies of leaves prevent light from reaching the ground.
▪ But propaganda that all old-growth forests are being hacked down willy-nilly is nonsense.
redwood
▪ Somehow they have to protect Young as if he were the last old-growth redwood tree.
▪ Frank Riggs, R-Windsor, whose district includes the hotly contested grove of old-growth redwoods.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But propaganda that all old-growth forests are being hacked down willy-nilly is nonsense.
▪ Frank Riggs, R-Windsor, whose district includes the hotly contested grove of old-growth redwoods.
▪ Like the northern spotted owl, the tiny bird is dependent on old-growth forests.
▪ Somehow they have to protect Young as if he were the last old-growth redwood tree.
▪ The floors of old-growth forests tend to be fairly sterile because overhead canopies of leaves prevent light from reaching the ground.
▪ The report has been welcomed by many legislators as the most authoritative and independent assessment of the old-growth timber industry ever prepared.
Wiktionary
old-growth

a. From, in, or pertaining to, an old-growth forest

Usage examples of "old-growth".

The cattails provided more than an old-growth woody stalk for a fire drill.

When she asked about them Lucy told her they were tupelo gum, old-growth bald cypress, cedar.

Lucy told her they were tupelo gum, old-growth bald cypress, cedar.

What had once been an old-growth forest, with ancient oaks, horse chestnuts and elms, was now a field of stumps, their timber felled for either fuel or defense.

With Wren supporting from the other side, they re-crossed the mud flats toward the old-growth acacia.

To Duluth, where I lived in an apartment complex called Northwoods Lake Court, surrounded by old-growth pine forest, but where an eleven-year-old child now might go and look around and ask her mother: ‘Why did they call this place Northwoods, because there aren’t any trees?

Preserving old-growth forest to help the spotted owl means Kirtland’.

Preserving old-growth forest to help the spotted owl means Kirtland's warbler and other species are deprived of the new-growth forest they prefer.

We danced down the spongy path into another stretch of old-growth forest, and there, amidst the high spruce, was a dead campfire banked up with litter: empty beer and wine bottles, styrofoam cups and spoons, chicken bones, a Saran Wrap box, discarded empty bags of Korn Curls, Mars bars.

But there has to be a way to achieve the technology and the industry and the jobs and not completely destroy that old-growth forest in the process.

The landscape was a checkerboard of old-growth forest alternating with patches that had been logged in the previous century.

To her surprise, minutes passed and she still saw nothing but old-growth forest on every side.

Every above-ground inch was covered with bushes and spindly trees, all vying for pockets of sunlight unclaimed by the towering old-growth forest.

The enemyall that he knew for certain was that they were here in his patch of pristine, old-growth forest, and that their numbers were equal to his.

The size of the property was impressive, and most of it was covered with dense, old-growth forest.