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What is the difference between forest and wood(s) ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between forest and wood(s) ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
In Japanese, they both are 森林.
What difference between them?
What difference between them?
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4 May 2015
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I was going say "same as the difference between 森 and 林". Um...
A forest is denser, I guess. Undergrowth and whatnot. Woods generally involve mostly just trees.
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I was going say "same as the difference between 森 and 林". Um...
A forest is denser, I guess. Undergrowth and whatnot. Woods generally involve mostly just trees.
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"Forests" are usually bigger than "woods". A lot of people live near a wood, but most do not live near a forest.
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Yeah a forest usually denser and has more trees than a woods
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I used to remember the difference when learning Chinese by checking which kanji had more trees ^_^

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