primeval forest

primeval forest
A forest unaffected by humans, typically containing large live trees, large dead trees, and large logs.

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  • primeval forest — jungle, ancient forest which has not been changed by man …   English contemporary dictionary

  • Augustów Primeval Forest — ( pl. Puszcza Augustowska) is a large virgin forest complex located in Poland as well as in northern Belarus and southeastern Lithuania. The forest covers about 1,600 km², of which 1,140 km² is in Poland.The Polish part of the forest is located… …   Wikipedia

  • Primeval (disambiguation) — Primeval or Primæval means ancient or primitive . Primeval may also refer to:* Primeval forest, an area of forest that has attained great age * Primeval number, a positive integer satisfying certain conditions * Primeval (TV series), an ITV… …   Wikipedia

  • Forest — This article is about a community of trees. For other uses, see Forest (disambiguation). A conifer forest in the Swiss Alps (National Park) …   Wikipedia

  • forest — Synonyms and related words: afforestation, afforestational, arboreous, arboretum, back country, backwoods, bed, boondock, boondocks, borderland, bosky, braky, broadcast, brush, bush, bush country, bushveld, bushy, chase, climax forest, cloud… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • primeval — adjective 1) primeval forest Syn: ancient, earliest, first, prehistoric, antediluvian, primordial; pristine, original, virgin 2) primeval fears Syn: instinctive, primitive, basic …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • primeval — adjective Etymology: Latin primaevus, from primus first + aevum age more at aye Date: 1662 1. of or relating to the earliest ages (as of the world or human history) ; ancient, primitive < 100 acres of primeval forest which has never felt an ax… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • Primeval timeline — Primeval is an ongoing science fiction television series created by Adrian Hodges, who wrote the majority of the scripts, and Tim Haines of Impossible Pictures. It was produced by Haines and Cameron McAllister. It should be noted that in order to …   Wikipedia

  • Primeval — Pri*me val, a. [L. primaevus; primus first + aevum age. See {Prime}, a., and {Age}.] Belonging to the first ages; pristine; original; primitive; primary; as, the primeval innocence of man. This is the forest primeval. Longfellow. [1913 Webster]… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • primeval, primitive — Primeval, a rarely used word, means original, belonging to the earliest age or ages. It is derived from a Latin word meaning in the first period of life and was thus used in Longfellow s Evangeline: This is the forest primeval. Primitive, from a… …   Dictionary of problem words and expressions

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