Presidential election, 2016

[SomeGuy]

(01-13-2017, 08:33 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(01-13-2017, 12:13 PM)SomeGuy Wrote: Isn't a forest a collective of trees?

It's a collection of trees, but not necessarily a collective.

An ant colony is a collective of insects, though.  Some people like that model; some don't.

Thanks, but it was kind of rhetorical.  I realize that forest is not actually the collective noun for tree, or necessarily a collective of any sort.

Unless it's an aspen forest or something, in which the trees are clones and they share a common root system.  A disturbingly un-American tree, those aspens...