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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Example Sentences

Near by stood a grove of firs, the trees were so gnarled and stunted from their exposed position that they looked like a dwarf forest, and seemed appropriate growing there.

From Fairy Tales from the German Forests by Arndt, Margaret

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

From Fire-Tongue by Rohmer, Sax

This was bad to traverse, but it was worse when they came to a muskeg where dwarf forest had once covered what was now a swamp.

From The Long Portage by Bindloss, Harold

His face was set toward the cliff, where, sheer out of the dwarf forest, rose, gigantic and gilded by the sun, the trees of pride.

From The Trees of Pride by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

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