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adjectiveold-growth (not comparable)
- not comparableFrom, in, or pertaining to, an old-growth forest; having mature trees or other plants.
Moving about 70 miles per hour, it crashed through the sturdy old-growth trees, snapping their limbs and shredding bark from their trunks.
2012 December 26, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Nov 20131 more example
While on a walk the next morning I found what looked like a patch of old growth habitat - perhaps somewhere the fires had missed - and to my astonishment saw a female Red-lored Whistler accompanied by an immature.
2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 240
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