Thorn forest, dense, scrublike vegetation characteristic of dry subtropical and warm temperate areas with a seasonal rainfall averaging 250 to 500 millimetres (about 10 to 20 inches).
The novel, so far a domestic comedy recognisable to most parents, begins to echo a fairytale: in the middle of the night Harriet and her father enter the "black forest", "dense and darkly packed", where they meet a deer, and Harriet, at last, stops screaming and falls asleep.
Reaching into the past, Melissa Thomas-Van Gundy paints a vivid picture of a highlands forest dense with white oak, flaming sugar maple and American beeches, with a scattering of yellow poplar, wild cherry and spruce pine and, here and there, a singular crab apple, elm or soaring sycamore tree.
Wooden decks penetrate jungle-like forest, dense with spiky ferns and palms, along with mangroves draped with vines and Spanish moss.
These results suggest that the conservation of natural deciduous forest, dense understory vegetation, and food trees (birches and alders), as well as a reduction in forest road construction, could enhance critical winter habitat for hazel grouse.
We analyzed the differences among native areas, pastures and crop areas and within each land use and examined only native areas (Forest, Dense Cerrado and Cerrado), pastures (Nominal, Degraded and Improved) and crop areas (Perennial, No-Tillage, Conventional Tillage).
The road is lithe and narrow, the car quickly enveloped in a forest denser and more mysterious than my beloved Adirondacks.
Expect plenty of quintessential Rockies scenery - wide open meadows, snow-capped peaks and forests dense with fragrant spruce and electric-green aspens.
Its predominant features were hills and trees; immense, rounded, lowering hills, misty blue in the distance; and unending forests, dense and dark, cloaking all the plains.
Root vegetables like celeriac, parsnip, and turnips were often used to give flavor and body, and dry mushrooms were popular in forest-dense areas.
In June, Tehelka lost a photographer, Tarun Sehrawat, to the deadly disease that he contacted during an assignment in the forest-dense state of Chhattisgarh.
