woodlot

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Recent Examples of woodlot For example, forested areas and woodlots with acorns can concentrate deer. Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 26 Oct. 2023 Three mosquitoes carrying the parasite that causes malaria were collected from the same woodlot, Sarasota County Mosquito Management Services told CBS News in a statement. Alexander Tin, CBS News, 29 June 2023 In recent years, Ms. Young has been approached by private woodlot owners looking for guidance. Moira Donovan, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Feb. 2022 For the second time in the past 15 years, Colleen Watson watched this summer as beavers flooded a 100-acre woodlot in the Atlantic province of New Brunswick that her grandfather, a blacksmith, took as payment from a customer during the Great Depression. New York Times, 20 Nov. 2021 See all Example Sentences for woodlot 
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Noun
  • Anagha Nair The rhythm of the harvest must go on for farmers on Lebanon’s ancient olive groves, despite the interruptions of bombs falling on all sides.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 26 Nov. 2024
  • The intimate property has 16 rooms and three suites, with grounds that include an olive grove and the Fiermonte Museum, with art from the family collection (an ancestor, Antonia Fiermonte, was a prominent artist and muse to sculptors René Letourneur and Jacques Zwobada).
    Catherine Sabino, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • But Meaning’s Edge almost captures that energy, following his muse down a hedge maze through genres—drum & bass, techno, downtempo—at breakneck speed.
    Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Each fence, wall, hedge, or canal laid over or through an existing path must be punctured by a gate, stile, or bridge.
    Steven Potter, Outside Online, 19 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The two most straightforward of the trials will involve large-scale planting of trees and bioenergy crops, including Miscanthus grasses and coppice willow, reports Robert Lea for AZoCleanTech.
    Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 May 2021
  • Another strategy, called short rotation coppice, involves planting fast-growing trees such as willows and poplars in extremely dense rows.
    Eric Toensmeier, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020
Noun
  • The castaway lifted his eyes slightly, barely making out the thick copse of palm trees dotting the horizon.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2023
  • In fall, the Valley glows yellow and gold thanks to copses of aspen and cottonwood trees.
    Elizabeth Brownfield, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
Noun
  • The best part of the farm itself was a dirt track that led from the back of the house to the edge of the property to a creek that ran swiftly through a dense thicket of trees.
    Lizz Schumer, People.com, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Gradually forests and bogs give way to more salt-tolerant thickets.
    Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The following morning, Nov. 20, Heskett was back in the same stand.
    Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The state park, California’s oldest, is also the largest stand of ancient coast redwoods south of San Francisco.
    Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • During one expedition to what was once London, a young scientist, out gathering brushwood, unearths a small vacuum flask, inside which is a handwritten account of life in a small village called Beadle during the days leading up to the lunar catastrophe.
    Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Bare dunes were planted with ‘brushwood and windbreaks, perpendicular to wind direction’ so that the dunes do not interfere with the canal system and irrigated farmlands.
    Azera Parveen Rahman, Quartz, 27 Oct. 2022

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“Woodlot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/woodlot. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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