foresting
USFOR-uhst-ing/ˈfɔɹəstɪŋ/UKFOR-ist-ing/ˈfɒɹɪstɪŋ/
- 1Present participle and gerund of forest.
The agency has spent a decade foresting land that was once open pasture.
Foresting degraded slopes can restore wildlife habitat over many years.
Note
The -ing form of a transitive verb, so it keeps its object even when it works as a noun: crews are foresting the hillside, and foresting degraded slopes takes years. Only one verb stands behind it, covering land with trees. The noun forest can also mean a cycle-free graph, a set of domains managed as a unit, or a royal hunting ground in England. None of those has a verb, so foresting always means planting.
foresting is a form of forest
forest, verb: To cover an area of land with trees. Full entry
- Spelling
- forest → foresting: add -ing
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