old growth

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   forest or woodland having a mature or overly mature ecosystem more or less uninfluenced by human activity

   Synonymsvirgin forest

   Broaderforest

Questions about old growth

What does old growth mean?

old growth means "forest or woodland having a mature or overly mature ecosystem more or less uninfluenced by human activity".

What is another word for old growth?

Close synonyms include virgin forest. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is old growth a common word?

old growth is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.