woodlot

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Recent Examples of woodlot Human activity has shaped the animals’ natural habitat, which covers a wide geographic range and many ecosystems, from low elevation forests to small woodlots, fields and pastures. USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2024 That success has come despite fears among some in the settlement that the authorities, wanting to protect mature woodlots, one day might force the refugees to go back home. Rodney Muhumuza, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Jan. 2024 Though smaller than most at 30 acres, Frost’s farm was typical of New England at the time, having a clapboard house, shed, barn and garden near the road, and fields, pastures, an orchard and a woodlot, all graced by low stone walls. Robert Thorson, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023 These walls are the binding threads of a nearly unbroken patchwork quilt of what had once been fields, pastures, woodlots and meadows. Robert Thorson, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023 See All Example Sentences for woodlot
Recent Examples of Synonyms for woodlot
Noun
  • The property also boasts Mediterranean olive groves and fragrant native plants designed by landscape architect Erik Dhont.
    India Brown, Robb Report, 23 July 2025
  • The four-mile trail passes through groves of Great Basin bristlecone pines, with trunks weathered by centuries of snow and sun.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • The QAnon movement continues to evolve, even as its central figure hedges and hesitates, showing how potent myths can be in times of uncertainty.
    Art Jipson, The Conversation, 19 July 2025
  • Shrubs used as screens can be easily sheared into straight hedges, perfect for the side of driveways, sidewalks, and houses.
    Markis Hill, Kansas City Star, 18 July 2025
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
  • She had been dragged and pushed by two men into a copse on Hampstead Heath.
    Sarah Beckwith, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
  • The eyes in the sky gazed down on a copse of spindly trees in western Russia, hooking onto where North Korean forces were coalescing, a Ukrainian special operations forces commander, who is being identified only by his call sign, Green, told Newsweek.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 23 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Often the oddity comes from the chilling drone of bureaucracy: the executor’s compassionate thicket of legal reasoning, an airline representative’s denial of Carrie’s quest for a bereavement discount, the dollars and cents of Dr. J’s cremation (for which Carrie is retroactively billed).
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Just west of the colorful Punda district, this city park was constructed to pay homage to one of the Caribbean’s most crucial—and vulnerable—ecosystems, with plenty of dense mangrove thickets that harbor all sorts of indigenous species.
    Jared Ranahan, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • Was their cause a betrayal, or a principled stand against a ruler whose ambitions threatened to consume their way of life?
    JP Mangalindan, Time, 1 Aug. 2025
  • Once a thriving mall, the Village is now known for the Chuck Wheeler’s hot dog stand — a decades-old institution.
    Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 31 July 2025
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 7 Aug. 2025.

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