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- verb Present participle of
reafforest .
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Examples
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It has proved to be the best growing tree for reafforesting a formerly strip-mined limestone quarry of a cement factory near Mombasa.
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The calcareous hills round Grasse and to the north of Nice are more or less bare, though they were at one time well wooded; the reafforesting of these parts has, however, made of late great progress.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 Various
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