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forest (EN)
noun

noun “forest”

singular forest, plural forests
  1. a large area densely filled with trees
    We went hiking in the dense forest behind our house.
  2. a dense collection or large amount of something
    She navigated through a forest of legal jargon to understand the contract.
  3. in graph theory, a collection of trees in a graph that contains no cycles
    In our study of graph theory, we identified that the collection of trees, known as a forest, within graph G contains no cycles, ensuring each component is acyclic.