English Explanatory Dictionary

red forest

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A forest (group of domains) having high security and limited access, used for administrative purposes.
  2. A forest that has died, leaving reddening foliage and trees.
  3. A forest contaminated with nuclear fallout.
  4. A forest killed by an infestation of mountain pine beetle.
name
  1. A red forest in Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Vyshhorod Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Polesia, Ukraine; a highly radioactive and highly contaminated pine forest caused by fallout from the Chornobyl-Vladimir Lenin nuclear power plant meltdown disaster accident.

Word forms

red forest red forests the Red Forest

Etymology

* (ecology): Due to the colouration found in forest that has been killed.

Synonyms

bastion forest
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