an area or region covered with forests or reserved for forests
forestland in American English
(ˈfɔrɪstˌlænd, ˈfɑr-)
noun
land containing or covered with forests
Word origin
[1640–50; forest + land]This word is first recorded in the period 1640–50. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: electric, generator, handicap, impulse, tonic
Examples of 'forestland' in a sentence
forestland
He meant palm oil, the lucrative production of which is eating up forestland.