a. [f. FOREST sb. + -INE.] Of or pertaining to forests.
1881. G. Allen, Evolutionist at Large, xvii. 166. The American butternut has to withstand the long teeth of much more formidable forestine rodents, whom it sets at naught with its stony and wrinkled shell. Ibid. (1884), The Ancestry of Birds, in Longm. Mag., III. Jan., 288. We have only to suppose such a reptile to acquire forestine habits, and to begin jumping freely from tree to tree, in order to set up the series of changes by which a true bird might be produced.
