drunken trees
nounEtymology By analogy to the stumbling gait of a person who is drunk on alcohol.
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Business, Forestry (A stand of) trees displaced from their normal vertical alignment, especially due to thermokarst.
- Drunken trees leaning in random directions are often found in spruce forests where discontinuous permafrost has melted.
- Synonyms
- drunken forest, tilted trees
- Hypernyms
- tree