dwarf forest

American  

[dwawrf fawr-ist] / ˈdwɔrf ˌfɔr ɪst /

noun

1. Ecology. a wooded area where trees are small or stunted because of low temperatures, lack of moisture, thin or poor-quality soil, etc.

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dwarf forest

We are now near the Loangwa country, covered with a dense dwarf forest, and the people collected in stockades.

From The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 by Waller, Horace

Venomous green slopes beyond them again, a fringe of dwarf forest, and the brazen skyline.

From Fire-Tongue by Rohmer, Sax

At last, the perpendicular walls were further back, the valley grew V-shaped, and patches of dwarf forest grew visible high up.

From To The West by Fenn, George Manville

A few yards ahead of us, through the crowded trunks of the dwarf forest, I saw a gray mass, like the wall of a fortress, across our path.

From The Blue Flower by Van Dyke, Henry

About a fortnight after these events Stephen received a visitor upon the uplands, where he was seeking a lamb that had strayed into a dwarf forest of gorse-bushes, and was bleating piteously in its bewilderment.

From Fern's Hollow by Stretton, Hesba