forest-born
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- (dated, obsolete, rare) Having been born in a forest.
- 1837, various authors, Southern Literary Messenger, page 238:
- The walls are still standing, which once resounded with the accents of the forest-born Demosthenes.
- 1841, Henry Stuart Foote, Texas and the Texans, page 120:
- ...to guide and direct the united energies of the colonists, made one people, by common sufferings, and common dangers; forest-born orators to rouse in the most lethargic and unconquerable spirit of resistance to Tyranny.