guardabosc

Verb-object compound, composed of guarda (“to guard, to protect”) +‎ bosc (“woods”).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˌɡwar.dəˈβɔsk]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˌɡwar.dəˈbɔsk]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˌɡwaɾ.ðaˈbɔsk]

guardabosc m or f by sense (invariable)

1. forester
2. ranger

• “guardabosc”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007