Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act or process of reforesting; replanting with forest-trees.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun replanting with trees; reconversion into a forest; the act of reforesting.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The act or process of replanting a forest, especially after clear-cutting.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the restoration (replanting) of a forest that had been reduced by fire or cutting

Etymologies

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re- + forest + -ation

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