forester

Meaning

Noun

• A person who practices forestry.
• A person who lives in a forest.
• A moth in the family Zygaenidae.
• Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Lethe (genus). Other members of this genus are called tree browns and wood browns.

Origin

• Initially a borrowing from Old French forestier, from forest + -ier, equivalent to forest + -er (agent suffix). Later, probably reinterpreted as forest + -er ("inhabitant, resident"). Displaced native .