afforest, forest
(verb) establish a forest on previously unforested land; “afforest the mountains”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
afforest (third-person singular simple present afforests, present participle afforesting, simple past and past participle afforested)
(transitive) To make into forest
"Afforest" once connoted bringing woodland under forest law in order to provide hunting grounds. However today the verb is more likely to connote commercial exploitation.
• (to make into forest): forest
• (to make into forest): deforest
Source: Wiktionary
Af*for"est, v. t. Etym: [LL. afforestare; ad + forestare. See Forest.]
Definition: To convert into a forest; as, to afforest a tract of country.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 July 2025
(noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; “in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
