For·est·er n.
1. One who has charge of the growing timber on an estate; an officer appointed to watch a forest and preserve the game.
2. An inhabitant of a forest.
3. A forest tree. [R.]
4. Zool. A lepidopterous insect belonging to Alypia and allied genera; as, the eight-spotted forester (A. octomaculata), which in the larval state is injurious to the grapevine.
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