Definition of Deforesting

1. Verb. (present participle of deforest) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Deforesting

1. deforest [v] - See also: deforest

Lexicographical Neighbors of Deforesting

deforced
deforcement
deforcements
deforceor
deforceors
deforcer
deforcers
deforces
deforciant
deforciants
deforcing
deforest
deforestation
deforestations
deforested
deforesting
deforests
deform
deformability
deformable
deformalize
deformalized
deformalizes
deformalizing
deformation-retract
deformation-retracted
deformation-retracting
deformation-retracts
deformation energy

Literary usage of Deforesting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Aspects of the Earth: A Popular Account of Some Familiar Geological Phenomena by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (1900)
"Arboreal Ancestry of Man ; Need of Destroying the Forests ; Evil Effects of Deforesting ; Relation of Forests to Soil ; Protective Effects. ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"THE Deforesting OF MOUNTAINS. A NATIONAL congress of French geographical societies was held last year at Lyons, and a report of its proceedings has been ..."

3. Orations, Addresses and Speeches of Chauncey M. Depew by Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1910)
"What have been the results from practical experience of deforesting that ... But there is another result which has come from the deforesting first and then ..."

4. Reboisement in France: Or, Records of the Replanting of the Alps, the by John Croumbie Brown (1880)
"SIEE,—" The attention of your Majesty has been given at different times to the dangers which result from the deforesting of the mountains. ..."

5. Report of the State Board of Geological Survey for the Year by Alfred C Lane, Michigan Geological Survey, Charles C Adams, Geological Survey, Michigan (1905)
"Deforesting THE LAND. The existence of forests in a region, while not affecting the amount of water falling on the ground, tends to prevent its escape into ..."

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