🌲 An empty forest area ✅ Obvious or definite 🪓 To cut all trees

clearcut

1 6.0

An area of forest where all the trees have been cut down

noun
/ˈklɪrˌkʌt/

: deforestación

We hiked through the clearcut, noting how the land had changed after all the trees were removed.
clearcut treatment
clearcut forests
clearcut harvest

Examples

The fish probably washed in from less-structured river sections located in a large clearcut area farther upstream.

Academic text (2013)
That's what a clearcut is.

END:CIV (2011)
At the same time, the Forest Service said clearcut permits would not be auto-extended.

Blog text (2)
In a clearcut they don't paint the trees that they're going to cut down.

END:CIV (2011)
The association, for its part, seeks "a three-year moratorium on clearcut logging in the Hoonah area."

Academic text (1996)
After severe disturbance, such as clearcut logging, early-successional brush-dominated and other nonconifer cover conditions occur.

Academic text (1996)
In Maine, both juvenile and adult amphibians traveled through clearcuts, and individuals settled for short periods (Patrick et al. 2006, 2008).

Academic text (2009)
The large clearcut left the forest barren, showing the extent of the logging effort.
Environmentalists are concerned about the impact of clearcuts on wildlife habitats in the region.

Synonyms

cutover

vsclearcut

Specialized

7.5

Land where people have removed the trees by logging

is about a forest area where every tree was cut down at once

Surface Forms

clearcut singular

clearcuts plural

Morphology

clearcut = clear + cut (transparent) = clear + cut

The noun names the area resulting from the action described by the compound 'clear' + 'cut' and is a literal composition.

Etymology

Clearcut as a noun comes from clear ('open, nothing left') and cut ('to cut down'), and it describes land where all the trees have been cut away, leaving a bare area.