rainforest
Noun

rainforest

  1. A forest in a climate with high annual rainfall and no dry season.
    • 2002, Chris C. Park, Tropical Rainforests, page 27 ↗,
      Perhaps the most impressive expression of species diversity is the density of species found in a given area of rainforest.
    • 2004, Nigel E. Stork, 24: The Theory and Practice of Planning for Long-Term Conservation of Biodiversity of Wet Tropics Rainforests in Australia, Eldredge Bermingham, Christopher W. Dick, Craig Moritz (editors), Tropical Rainforests: Past, Present, and Future, page 508 ↗
      Tropical rainforests in Australia have suffered a fate similar in many ways to that of rainforests elsewhere in the world, but considerable progress in safeguarding the future of what remains has been made.
    • 2014, Nick Hunter, Rainforests, page 38 ↗,
      Enjoy your visit to the rainforests, because the next time you go there things could be very different.
Synonyms Translations
  • French: , forêt de la pluie, pluvisylve, pluvisilve, forêt pluviale, forêt pluvieuse
  • German: Regenwald
  • Italian: foresta pluviale
  • Russian: дождево́й лес
  • Spanish: bosque tropical m, bosque hidrofítico m, pluviselva



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