Etymograph

English

pseudoforest

From pseudo- + forest.

A compound of pseudo- + forest

Ancient Greek ψεύδω ‘to lie’

Ancient Greek ψευδής ‘false, lying’

English pseudo-

Early Medieval Latin forestis

Old French forest ‘royal hunting ground’

Middle English forest ‘a forest or wood’

English forest

Today it means

noun an undirected graph in which every connected component has at most one cycle

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “pseudoforest”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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