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old-growth

old-growth

English

Adjective

old-growth (not comparable)

  1. From, in, or pertaining to, an old-growth forest
    • 2012 November 14, John Branch, “Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Time:
      Moving about 70 miles per hour, it crashed through the sturdy old-growth trees, snapping their limbs and shredding bark from their trunks.