cryptoforest

English

Etymology

Coined by Wilfred Hou Je Bek as crypto- +‎ forest

Noun

cryptoforest (plural cryptoforests)

1. A tree-filled area that is not considered a forest, typically a previously developed area which has reverted to wild growth.
   • 2010, W Hou Je Bek, “Fight the Google-Jugend!”, in Thresholds:

     At the moment he is documenting and theorizing the weed systems and cryptoforest of the g/local Amazon.

   • 2016, Olu Jenzen, Sally R. Munt, The Ashgate Research Companion to Paranormal Cultures, →ISBN, page 403:

     Such cryptozoological phenomena reported on the marshes are easier to understand if you view the area as a cryptoforest.

   • 2017, François-Xavier Gleyzon, Johann Gregory, Shakespeare and the Future of Theory, →ISBN:

     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.

Derived terms

• cryptoforestry