forest
noun
[ ˈfɒrɪst ]
• a large area covered chiefly with trees and undergrowth.
• "a pine forest"
• a large number or dense mass of vertical or tangled objects.
• "a forest of high-rise apartments"
Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘wooded area kept for hunting’, also denoting any uncultivated land): via Old French from late Latin forestis (silva), literally ‘(wood) outside’, from Latin foris ‘outside’ (see foreign).
