Crossword-Solution: AFFORESTATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Afforestation | n. | The act of converting into forest or woodland. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “AFFORESTATION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the conversion of bare or cultivated land into forest | 1 answer |
| dendrology | 3 answers |
| forestry | 10 answers |
| Plantation | 11 answers |
| colonization | 12 answers |
| colonisation | 14 answers |
| planting | 17 answers |
| woodland | 24 answers |
| forest | 54 answers |
| Estate | 72 answers |
| settlement | 87 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with AFFORESTATION (5)
The afforestation of the district, however, and its conversion into a royal demesne had clipped off a large section of his estate, while other parts had been confiscated as a punishment for his supposed complicity in an abortive Saxon rising.
They talked vaguely about Re-afforestation, and Reclaiming of Foreshores, and Sea walls: but of course there was the question of Cost! that was a difficulty.
The hill and mountain lands, wherever accessible to the densely peopled plains, have long been cut over and as regularly has afforestation been encouraged and deliberately secured even through the transplanting of nursery stock grown expressly for that purpose.
Inquiries regarding the afforestation of these strips of hillside showed that the extensive digging necessitated by the recovery of the roots usually caused new trees to spring up quickly as volunteers from scattered seed and from the roots, so that planting was not generally required.
CHAPTER XXI AFFORESTATION _Thou, too, great father of the British floods,_ _With joyful pride survey'st our lofty woods,_ _Where towering oaks their growing honours rear_ _And future navies on thy shores appear._--ALEXANDER POPE.