clear-cut

 

adjective

  • 1sharply defined; easy to perceive or understand: we now had a clear-cut objective
  • 2(of an area) from which every tree has been cut down and removed: clear-cut forests are unappealing for recreation

verb

  • (also clear-fell) [with object] cut down and remove every tree from (an area): colonizers clear-cut large jungle tracts