Cryptoforest

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A tree-filled area that is not considered a forest, typically a previously developed area which has reverted to wild growth.

    "At the moment he is documenting and theorizing the weed systems and cryptoforest of the g/local Amazon."

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"At the moment he is documenting and theorizing the weed systems and cryptoforest of the g/local Amazon."

Etymology

Coined by Wilfred Hou Je Bek as crypto- + forest

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