Meanings
plural cryptoforests
- A tree-filled area that is not considered a forest, typically a previously developed area which has reverted to wild growth.
At the moment he is documenting and theorizing the weed systems and cryptoforest of the g/local Amazon.
2010, W Hou Je Bek, “Fight the Google-Jugend!”, in Thresholds2 more examples
Such cryptozoological phenomena reported on the marshes are easier to understand if you view the area as a cryptoforest.
2016, Olu Jenzen, Sally R. Munt, The Ashgate Research Companion to Paranormal Cultures, →ISBN, page 403Instead, we have chosen to bind Shakespearean drama to contemporary design on a speculative plane open to the conjectural, indeed poetic quality of floating libertarian principalities and offshore data havens, tuned cities and drone landscapes, inflatable apartments and cryptoforests.
2017, François-Xavier Gleyzon, Johann Gregory, Shakespeare and the Future of Theory, →ISBN
Origin
Coined by Wilfred Hou Je Bek as crypto- + forest
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