"silvestral" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more silvestral [comparative], most silvestral [superlative]
Etymology: From Latin silvestris + -al. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|silvestris|al|lang1=la}} Latin silvestris + -al Head templates: {{en-adj}} silvestral (comparative more silvestral, superlative most silvestral)
  1. (rare) Of or pertaining to a forest or wood. Tags: rare
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          "text": "He had been pleased to find further evidence of ‘tree-consciousness’ in the city of Prague itself. It was, however, at the centre of Soviet power that he found the silvestral theme really coming into its own.[…]He opens his report to this international and ecologically minded constituency by establishing that China’s interest in silvestral matters stretched far back into antiquity. Waterways and roads had been planted with elms and willows during the Sui dynasty (581–618), and mature trees were moved from distant forests ‘to grace the palaces’. Kublai Khan himself had been a man of trees, who believed, if Marco Polo is correct, that ‘those who plant trees are rewarded with long life’.",
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