Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to or living or growing in the woods: as, forestine fruit-eaters.

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Examples

  • During dessert, just as the Academician was singing the praises of a native delicacy, 'la forestine', my uncle, who had been revolving a few drops of some notable growth of Medoc in his glass for the last minute or two, stopped suddenly, and put down his glass on the table.

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

  • During dessert, just as the Academician was singing the praises of a native delicacy, 'la forestine', my uncle, who had been revolving a few drops of some notable growth of Medoc in his glass for the last minute or two, stopped suddenly, and put down his glass on the table.

    The Ink-Stain (Tache d'encre) — Complete Ren�� Bazin 1892

  • Can we believe that forestine luxuriance not to have overgrown all highways, that flood of superabundant song not have submerged all landmarks?

    Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. Standish O'Grady 1887

  • Tropical forestine birds have usually a ground tone of green because that colour enables them best to escape notice among the monotonous verdure of equatorial woodland scenery.

    Science in Arcady Grant Allen 1873

  • For in fact this power is but a very incidental result of the general intelligence of parrots, combined with the other peculiarities of their social life and forestine character.

    Science in Arcady Grant Allen 1873

  • Saxon settlers, but they show, by their forestine terminations of

    Science in Arcady Grant Allen 1873

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