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second growth

noun

  1. the plant growth that follows the destruction of virgin forest.


second growth

noun

  1. natural regrowth of a forest after fire, cutting, or some other disturbance
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of second growth1

First recorded in 1820–30
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Example Sentences

The shores, at first bold and rough, covered with dense thickets of second-growth timber, now became smoother and more fertile.

Melber straightened himself and lurched off into the second-growth.

You can sail all over it in a bo't, and cut toothpicks from the tops of the second-growth birch.

These old fields now mostly covered with second-growth forest, of which red gum forms an important part (see Fig. 12).

Second-growth red gum occurs to any considerable extent only on land which has been thoroughly cleared.

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