virgin forest

English

Noun

virgin forest (countable and uncountable, plural virgin forests)

1. A forest which has not been subjected to human ecological disturbance.
   • 1952 January, “Electrification Progress in Norway”, in Railway Magazine, page 54:

     These developments, most of which have taken place during the past 30 years, are remarkable in view of the low traffic density, except in the neighbourhood of Oslo, and the very extensive undeveloped areas of mountain and virgin forest.

Translations

forest free from disturbance

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 處女林／处女林 (zh) (chǔnǚlín), 老林 (zh) (lǎolín)

• Esperanto: praarbaro
• Finnish: neitseellinen metsä
• French: forêt vierge (fr) f
• Galician: selva virxe f
• German: Urwald (de) m
• Hungarian: őserdő (hu)
• Italian: foresta vergine f
• Japanese: 原生林 (ja) (genseirin), 原始林 (ja) (genshirin), 処女林 (shojorin)
• Korean: 원시림 (ko) (wonsirim)
• Persian: جنگل بکر (fa) (jangal-e bekr)
• Polish: las dziewiczy m
• Portuguese: floresta virgem f, mata virgem f
• Russian: де́вственный лес m (dévstvennyj les)
• Spanish: selva virgen
• Tagalog: lantay na gubat, lubwagan

See also

• old-growth forest
• second-growth forest
• primeval forest