English Explanatory Dictionary

disafforestation

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The change in the legal status of an area from forest to that of normal land, entailing the loss of forest laws.
  2. Deforestation.

Word forms

disafforestation disafforestations

Etymology

From post-classical Latin disafforestātiō (13th cent.), from the participial stem of Latin disafforestō. By surface analysis, disafforest + -ation.

Related words

disafforestment
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