virgin forest
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Meaning
virgin forest (countable and uncountable, plural virgin forests)
A forest being more or less free from human ecological disturbance.
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For decades, cocoa farmers have encroached on virgin forest, mostly after the felling of trees by logging companies.
When the New England settlers arrived in what is now Adams County there was nothing but a dense virgin forest and wild prairie.