Red Forest
See also: red forest
English
Etymology
red+forest. Calque of Slavic (Russian Ры́жий лес (Rýžij les) and Ukrainian Руди́й ліс (Rudýj lis)). From the reddish colouration of the forest leaves and trees in the contamination zone.
Proper noun
- A forest, a red forest in Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Vyshhorod Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Polesia, Ukraine; a highly radioactive and highly contaminated pine forest caused by fallout from the Chornobyl-Vladimir Lenin nuclear power plant meltdown disaster accident.
Translations
a highly radioactive and highly contaminated forest, a red forest in Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Vyshhorod Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Polesia, Ukraine
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