virgin forest

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

   Synonymsold growth

   Broaderforest

Questions about virgin forest

What does virgin forest mean?

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

What is another word for virgin forest?

Close synonyms include old growth. 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 virgin forest a common word?

virgin forest 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.