Illustrative Context

There are many animals in that forest.

Target Sense

• The most generic term for a dense collection of trees covering a given area.
• The target scale should be intermediate, but big enough so that from inside the area it is not possible to see through the trees to areas outside it without trees.
• So, avoid terms that specifically imply only a small stand of trees (e.g. copse), or a vast expanse.
• Select a term that can refer to an actual specific area of woodland/forest, not more abstract or technical terms just for this type of ecology or environment.
• Note that for many speakers of English, for example, the most appropriate term could in fact be woods rather than forest. (Compare with the similar approach to considerations of prototypical size in the separate IE-CoR meanings lake, river, bird and leaf.)