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forester

The English word “forester” has 5 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A person who practices forestry.
  2. A person who lives in a forest.
  3. Any of various species of kangaroo that inhabit bushland, especially the eastern grey kangaroo.
  4. A moth in the family Zygaenidae.
  5. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genera Lethe, Euphaedra and Harmilla.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English forester, a borrowing from Old French forestier, from forest + -ier; equivalent to forest + -er. Displaced native Old English wuduweard.

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