Word Meanings - JUNGLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A dense growth of brushwood, grasses, reeds, vines, etc.; an almost impenetrable thicket of trees, canes, and reedy vegetation, as in India, Africa, Australia, and Brazil. The jungles of India are of bamboos, canes, and other palms, very difficult

Additional info about word: JUNGLE

A dense growth of brushwood, grasses, reeds, vines, etc.; an almost impenetrable thicket of trees, canes, and reedy vegetation, as in India, Africa, Australia, and Brazil. The jungles of India are of bamboos, canes, and other palms, very difficult to penetrate. Balfour . Jungle bear , the aswail or sloth bear. -- Jungle cat , the chaus. -- Jungle cock , the male of a jungle fowl. -- Jungle fowl. Any wild species of the genus Gallus, of which several species inhabit India and the adjacent islands; as, the fork-tailed jungle fowl of Java, G. Stanleyi of Ceylon, and G. Bankiva of India. Note: The latter, which resembles the domestic gamecock, is supposed to be one of the original species from which the domestic fowl was derived. An Australian grallatorial bird which is allied to the brush turkey, and, like the latter, lays its eggs in mounds of vegetable matter, where they are hatched by the heat produced by decomposition.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of JUNGLE)

• Thicket
• Copse
• grove
• wood
• jungle
• forest

Related words: (words related to JUNGLE)

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• FORESTAY
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• FORESTAGE
  A duty or tribute payable to the king's foresters. A service paid by foresters to the king.
• GROVEL
  adv., on the face, prone, which was misunderstood as a p. pr.; cf. OE. gruf, groff, in the same sense; of Scand. origin, cf. Icel. 1. To creep on the earth, or with the face to the ground; to lie prone, or move uneasily with the body prostrate
• FORESTER
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• FORESTALL
  To obstruct or stop up, as a way; to stop the passage of on highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market. To forestall the market, to buy or contract for merchandise or provision on its way to market, with the intention
• GROVELER
  One who grovels; an abject wretch.
• JUNGLE
  A dense growth of brushwood, grasses, reeds, vines, etc.; an almost impenetrable thicket of trees, canes, and reedy vegetation, as in India, Africa, Australia, and Brazil. The jungles of India are of bamboos, canes, and other palms, very difficult
• COPSE
  A wood of small growth; a thicket of brushwood. See Coppice. Near yonder copse where once the garden smiled. Goldsmith.
• THICKET
  A wood or a collection of trees, shrubs, etc., closely set; as, a ram caught in a thicket. Gen. xxii. 13.
• GROVE
  The original sense seems to have been a lane cut through trees. forest, and without underwood, planted, or growing naturally as if arranged by art; a wood of small extent. Note: The Hebrew word Asherah, rendered grove in the Authorized Version of
• GROVELING
  Lying prone; low; debased. "A groveling creature." Cowper.
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• FORESTALLER
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• COPSEWOOD
  Brushwood; coppice. Macaulay.
• FORESTAL
  Of or pertaining to forests; as, forestal rights.
• COAFFOREST
  To convert into, or add to, a forest. Howell.
• AFFOREST
  To convert into a forest; as, to afforest a tract of country.
• UNDERGROVE
  A grove of shrubs or low trees under taller ones. Wordsworth.
• REAFFORESTATION
  The act or process of converting again into a forest.
• REFORESTIZE
  To convert again into a forest; to plant again with trees.
• REFOREST
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• DISFORESTATION
  The act of clearing land of forests. Daniel.