forestine

F4O1R1E1S1T1I1N1E1

adjective

Of or relating to a forest.

Scrabble 12

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adjectiveforestine (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOf or relating to a forest.
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    Farther in, however, the clan names grow rarer; and where we find them they are not hams or tuns, regular communities of Saxon settlers, but they show, by their forestine terminations of hurst, ley, den, and field, that they were mere outlying shelters of hunters or swineherds in the trackless forest. Such are Billinghurst, Warminghurst, Itchingfield, and Ardingley.

    1892, Grant Allen, Science in Arcady

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APA

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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “forestine,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/forestine.

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