Usually means: Planting new forests on lands.
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  1. afforestation: Merriam-Webster
  2. afforestation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. afforestation: Collins English Dictionary
  4. afforestation: Vocabulary.com
  5. Afforestation, afforestation: Wordnik
  6. afforestation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. afforestation: Wiktionary
  8. Afforestation, afforestation: Dictionary.com
  9. Afforestation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Afforestation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. afforestation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. afforestation: Rhymezone
  13. Afforestation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. afforestation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. afforestation: FreeDictionary.org
  16. afforestation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. afforestation: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. afforestation: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  19. afforestation: Merriam-Webster

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  1. afforestation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AFFORESTATION: NATURAL RESOURCE INVENTORY
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See afforest as well.)

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noun:  The act or process of creating a new forest where none had existed before, or reforestation of areas long deforested.

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