deforestation

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /dɪˌfɒɹɪsˈteɪʃən/|/ˌdiːfɒɹɪsˈteɪʃən/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The process of destroying a forest and replacing it with something else, especially with an agricultural system. countable,uncountable
    — Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.
  2. A transformation to eliminate intermediate data structures within a program. countable,uncountable

词形变化

deforestations plural

词汇关系

衍生词
antideforestation nondeforestation

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-der.
English de-
English forest
English deforest
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English deforestation
From deforest + -ation. First attested in 1870.
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