Other forms: clearings
A clearing is an open space within a wood. A clearing in the forest, camp in the clearing, a sunlit clearing.
They are ecologically important rather than empty: light reaches the ground and a different set of plants and insects lives there. In British universities, clearing is the process of matching unplaced students to unfilled courses after results day.
1nounclearingAn open space within a wood.
“We walked through the forest until we came to a sunny clearing and had our picnic there.”
clearing is an open space.
From clear + -ing.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA