old growth


noun
  1. forest growth consisting of mature or overmature trees.

  2. virgin timber.

Origin of old growth

1
First recorded in 1880–85

Other words from old growth

  • old-growth, adjective

Words Nearby old growth

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How to use old growth in a sentence

  • Every part of his work is of selected stock, as free from knots and seams and sap-wood as a piece of old-growth pine.

    The Face of the Fields | Dallas Lore Sharp
  • And if it be a folly, it is one of an old growth, and is rife among our antipodes as ourselves.

  • In both cases the outer skin or epidermis is shedding an old growth, to be replaced by a new one.

    The Story of Evolution | Joseph McCabe
  • Every part of his work is of selected stock, as free from knots and seams and sapwood as a piece of old-growth pine.

    The Seer of Slabsides | Dallas Lore Sharp
  • When these limited supplies are used up, there will be very little more old-growth timber in the country for them to use.

    The School Book of Forestry | Charles Lathrop Pack