ghost treesとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

ghost trees pl (plural only)

1. Dead or dying trees in a relatively intact state in a ghost forest.
   • 2022, Erin Gifford, Hiking Coastal Trails of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, page 128:

     […] including ghost trees. These dead, leafless trees were the victims of saltwater intrusion as brackish water moved in from the bay.

   • 2025, McKay Jenkins, Joy Shindler Rafey, The Maryland Master Naturalist's Handbook, page 93:

     Saltwater intrusion threatens to ruin farmland and has already turned once-vibrant forests into collections of "ghost trees." Up and down the coast, dense thickets of invasive phragmites have displaced native species.

参考

• drunken trees