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+ Acronym Finder
With more than 485,000 human-edited entries, Acronym Finder is the world's largest and most comprehensive dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms. Combined with the Acronym Attic, Acronym Finder contains more than 3 million acronyms and abbreviations.

+ AGROVOC
AGROVOC is a multilingual, structured and controlled vocabulary designed to cover the terminology of all subject fields in agriculture, forestry, fisheries, food and related domains (e.g. environment).

+ American Heritage Dictionary

+ Diccionario Anaya de la Lengua Española

+ Dictionary.net

+ e-Thesaurus
Thesaurus of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights

+ FAO Terminology

+ German:English Dictionary

+ Glossary and Forestry Terms
A searchable and browsable database of forestry terms produced by the Ministry of Forests, which is a department of the Government of British Columbia in Canada. The glossary is a compilation of general terms used in British Columbia and does not cover all forestry terms used in other countries. A bibliography is available online of the sources consulted in the creation of the glossary. The complete file may be downloaded as text, and some of the definitions contain hypertext links both to other definitions and to external related sources. It is also possible to browse a listing of forestry acronyms. New term suggestions are solicited. There is also 'Definitions for forestry acronyms and initialisms'.

+ LEO
German:English Dictionary

+ Life Science Dictionary

+ LookWAYup Dictionary/Thesaurus and Translation

+ Majstro
Translation Dictionary

+ Merriam-Webster Online
The complete Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary and Theasaurus online with definitions and audio pronunciations.

+ NetLingo
Internet Language Dictionary

+ OECD Macrothesaurus
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

+ OED Online
The Oxford English Dictionary, the world's leading authority on the history and development of the English language since 1150, is now available online.

+ Plant Dictionary

+ Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

+ Translator
This site will help you to translate text and web pages from one language to another, including English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese or Russian.

+ Trav-Lang
Translation Dictionaries

+ UNBIS Thesaurus
United Nations

+ Yahoo's Reference Dictionaries

+ YourDictionary.com
Comprehensive index of online dictionaries with 1800 dictionaries in more that 230 different languages

+ Wordsmyth
The Educational Dictionary/Thesaurus

+ The WorldWideWeb Acronym and Abbreviation Server

Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
CIFOR advances human wellbeing, environmental conservation and equity by conducting research to inform policies and practices that affect forests in developing countries. CIFOR is one of 15 centres within the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).