cryptoforest

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noun

A tree-filled area that is not considered a forest, typically a previously developed area which has reverted to wild growth.

Scrabble 22

Meanings

nouncryptoforest (plural cryptoforests)

plural cryptoforests

  1. 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 Thresholds
    2 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 403

    Instead, 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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Cite this entry
APA

cryptoforest. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cryptoforest

MLA

“cryptoforest.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cryptoforest. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cryptoforest,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cryptoforest.

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