treemageddon

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English

Alternative forms

Treemageddon

Etymology

tree +‎ -mageddon

Noun

treemageddon (plural treemageddons)

(informal) The mass death or destruction of trees; a disaster caused by or involving trees.
- 2010 March 18, David Pogue, “A Tech-Filled Life, Without Power”, in The New York Times:
  As a result of Treemageddon, the power lines all over the tri-state area are a tangled mess.
- 2013, Clive Potter, “Saving Britain’s Trees: Countering the growing threat from invasive pests and diseases”, in ECOS, volume 34, number 2, page 25:
  Amidst talk of an impending ‘treemageddon’, it began to dawn that Chalara could be an environmental disaster with just as great an impact.
- 2016 August 6, Lynda V. Mapes, “From mountain forests to city parks, trees are stressed and dying”, in The Seattle Times:
  Implicated in the unfolding treemageddon is the drought of 2015.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:treemageddon.

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