disafforestation

Betekenis (Engels)

1. (countable, historical, uncountable) The change in the legal status of an area from forest to that of normal land, entailing the loss of forest laws.
2. (archaic, countable, uncountable) Deforestation.

Sinonieme

deforest

deforestation

disforestation

Etimologie (Engels)

From post-classical Latin disafforestātiō (13th cent.), from the participial stem of Latin disafforestō. By surface analysis, disafforest + -ation.