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cryptoforest en · NOUN

Etymology

Coined by Wilfred Hou Je Bek as crypto- + forest

Meanings

1. A tree-filled area that is not considered a forest, typically a previously developed area which has reverted to wild growth.
   • At the moment he is documenting and theorizing the weed systems and cryptoforest of the g/local Amazon. 2010, W Hou Je Bek, “Fight the Google-Jugend!”, in Thresholds:
   • Instead, we have chosen to bind Shakespearean drama to contemporary design on a speculative plane open to the conjectural, indeed poetic quality of floating libertarian principalities and offshore data havens, tuned cities and drone landscapes, inflatable apartments and cryptoforests. 2017, François-Xavier Gleyzon, Johann Gregory, Shakespeare and the Future of Theory, →ISBN:
   • Such cryptozoological phenomena reported on the marshes are easier to understand if you view the area as a cryptoforest. 2016, Olu Jenzen, Sally R. Munt, The Ashgate Research Companion to Paranormal Cultures, →ISBN, page 403:

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Deriveds

cryptoforestry