jungles (noun)

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• concrete jungle — noun an area in a city with large modern buildings that is perceived as dangerous and unpleasant • Hypernyms: ↑jungle • Part Holonyms: ↑city, ↑metropolis, ↑urban center • Part Meronyms: ↑street * * * noun, pl …   Useful english dictionary

• jungle — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ dense, impenetrable, thick ▪ lush ▪ the lush jungles of the Yucatan Peninsula ▪ tropical ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

• mangrove family — noun trees and shrubs that usually form dense jungles along tropical seacoasts • Syn: ↑Rhizophoraceae, ↑family Rhizophoraceae • Hypernyms: ↑dicot family, ↑magnoliopsid family • Member Holonyms: ↑Myrtales, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• machan — noun A kind of safety platform in a tree used when hunting big animals such as tigers and leopards; found most commonly in Indian jungles …   Wiktionary

• overgrowth — noun a) A usually abundant, luxuriant growth over or on something else. A tangle of growth occurring at the top of trees involving vines and branches, common in jungles. b) An excessive growth or increase in numbers. Syn: hyperplasia, hypertrophy …   Wiktionary

• giant forest hog — noun A large pig living in the jungles of West and Central Africa …   Wiktionary

• crab-eating raccoon — noun A species of raccoon Procyon cancrivorus, found in the jungles of Central and South America …   Wiktionary

• family Rhizophoraceae — noun trees and shrubs that usually form dense jungles along tropical seacoasts • Syn: ↑Rhizophoraceae, ↑mangrove family • Hypernyms: ↑dicot family, ↑magnoliopsid family • Member Holonyms: ↑Myrtales, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• Rhizophoraceae — noun trees and shrubs that usually form dense jungles along tropical seacoasts • Syn: ↑family Rhizophoraceae, ↑mangrove family • Hypernyms: ↑dicot family, ↑magnoliopsid family • Member Holonyms: ↑Myrtales, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• gentle lemur — noun : any of several small nocturnal lemurs (genus Cheirogaleus or Mioxicebus) living in bamboo jungles of northeastern Madagascar and feeding on shoots and roots of the bamboo …   Useful english dictionary

• Bangladesh — /bahng gleuh desh , bang /, n. republic in S Asia, N of the Bay of Bengal: a member of the Commonwealth of Nations; a former province of Pakistan. 125,340,261; 54,501 sq. mi. (141,158 sq. km). Cap.: Dhaka. Formerly, East Pakistan. * * *… …   Universalium