woodlot

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Recent Examples of woodlot Human activity has shaped the animals’ natural habitat, which covers a wide geographic range and many ecosystems, from low elevation forests to small woodlots, fields and pastures. USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2024 That success has come despite fears among some in the settlement that the authorities, wanting to protect mature woodlots, one day might force the refugees to go back home. Rodney Muhumuza, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Jan. 2024 Though smaller than most at 30 acres, Frost’s farm was typical of New England at the time, having a clapboard house, shed, barn and garden near the road, and fields, pastures, an orchard and a woodlot, all graced by low stone walls. Robert Thorson, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023 These walls are the binding threads of a nearly unbroken patchwork quilt of what had once been fields, pastures, woodlots and meadows. Robert Thorson, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023 See All Example Sentences for woodlot
Recent Examples of Synonyms for woodlot
Noun
  • Groundbreaking took place in July 1954 on a 160-acre orange grove in Anaheim about 22 miles south of Los Angeles.
    Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 9 July 2025
  • Silvery green olive groves produce the oil that’s served in the hotel’s three restaurants.
    Ann Abel, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
Noun
  • That’s in part because major pro-Israel political donors in New York are considering how best to keep Mamdani from winning the general election in November — chief among them hedge funder Bill Ackman.
    Ron Kampeas, Sun Sentinel, 2 July 2025
  • Real estate, especially multifamily and industrial assets, may provide a reliable hedge.
    Ellie Perlman, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • The two most straightforward of the trials will involve large-scale planting of trees and bioenergy crops, including Miscanthus grasses and coppice willow, reports Robert Lea for AZoCleanTech.
    Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 May 2021
  • Another strategy, called short rotation coppice, involves planting fast-growing trees such as willows and poplars in extremely dense rows.
    Eric Toensmeier, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020
Noun
  • She had been dragged and pushed by two men into a copse on Hampstead Heath.
    Sarah Beckwith, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
  • The eyes in the sky gazed down on a copse of spindly trees in western Russia, hooking onto where North Korean forces were coalescing, a Ukrainian special operations forces commander, who is being identified only by his call sign, Green, told Newsweek.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 23 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • For months, Democrats have been wandering in a thicket of words.
    Jamie Malanowski, Air Mail, 21 June 2025
  • In early January, Nadia emerges from the last thicket.
    Joseph O’Neill, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Whether his Medicaid stand will matter in next year’s election is unclear.
    David Lightman July 10, Sacbee.com, 10 July 2025
  • Money in, money out: Use classic methods, such as a lemonade stand, to teach earning money and managing expenses.
    Kris Ann Valdez, Parents, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • During one expedition to what was once London, a young scientist, out gathering brushwood, unearths a small vacuum flask, inside which is a handwritten account of life in a small village called Beadle during the days leading up to the lunar catastrophe.
    Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Bare dunes were planted with ‘brushwood and windbreaks, perpendicular to wind direction’ so that the dunes do not interfere with the canal system and irrigated farmlands.
    Azera Parveen Rahman, Quartz, 27 Oct. 2022

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“Woodlot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/woodlot. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.

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