second growth

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   a second growth of trees covering an area where the original stand was destroyed by fire or cutting

   Broaderforest

Questions about second growth

What does second growth mean?

second growth means "a second growth of trees covering an area where the original stand was destroyed by fire or cutting".

Is second growth a common word?

second 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.