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old growth

noun

  1. forest growth consisting of mature or overmature trees.
  2. virgin timber.


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Other Words From

  • old-growth adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of old growth1

First recorded in 1880–85
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Example Sentences

It’s a target for logging because it contains vast tracts of virgin, old growth trees that can reach 200 feet tall, and which are up to 800 years old.

One of the early green spots she and colleagues campaigned for was not old growth, but it had become one of the few left unlogged where she lived on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.

Fish in their pond, hike the piney trails, or lounge in your hammock among the trees before checking out the park and its 26,276 acres of intact old growth bottomland hardwood forest.

Protecting the old growth is essential for our ecosystem and one of our best resources for fighting the climate crisis.

There’s a strong possibility that after repealing the Rule, the Forest Service’s next step will be to revise its 2016 Tongass forest plan to open up even more old growth to clearcutting and new roads.

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.

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.

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

When these limited supplies are used up, there will be very little more old-growth timber in the country for them to use.

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