樹林|じゅりんjurin[0]heiban (flat)

1. nounforest; woodland; woods; area of dense woody vegetation

• Synonym林はやしNeutralThe everyday word for woods; trees may be sparse or dense. 「樹林」 is the written botanical and geographical term.
• Synonym森もりNeutralEveryday word for a forest of densely growing trees; also means a shrine grove.
• Synonym森林しんりんNeutralA forest, rather formal, as in 「森林伐採」; suggests large scale.
• Synonym林地りんちWrittenWritten/formal prose and a forestry term: land for growing trees and bamboo, natural or planted. 「樹林」 is the dense tree community itself, not the land.
• Synonym森林地しんりんちWrittenWritten/formal prose for land covered with trees; rarely used. Close in sense to 「森林」.
• Synonym森林地帯しんりんちたいWrittenWritten/formal prose for a large forest region; mainly geographical description.
• Antonym砂漠さばくNeutralA desert with almost no vegetation; the opposite of 「樹林」.

Everyday speech uses 「林」 or 「森」; formal contexts prefer 「森林」. 「樹林」 is the botanical and geographical term for a dense tree community, as in 「照葉樹林」. For land, use 「林地」; for desert, 「砂漠」.

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