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Jungle

/ˈdʒʌŋ.ɡ(ə)l/

A large, undeveloped, humid forest, especially in a tropical region, that is home to many wild plants and animals; a tropical rainforest.

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📖 Definitions of "Jungle"

noun

1
A large, undeveloped, humid forest, especially in a tropical region, that is home to many wild plants and animals; a tropical rainforest.
2
Any uncultivated tract of forest or scrub habitat.
3
A place where people behave ruthlessly, unconstrained by law or morality.
"It’s a jungle out there."
4
An area where hobos camp together.

adjective

1
(Of musical beat, rhythm, etc.) resembling the fast-paced drumming of traditional peoples of the jungle.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Jungle"

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Word	Definition
rainforestnoun	A forest in a climate with high annual rainfall and no dry season.
forestnoun	A dense uncultivated tract of trees and undergrowth, larger than woods.
selvanoun	Heavily forested ground in the Amazon basin.
forestrynoun	(uncountable) The art and practice of cultivating, exploiting and renewing forests for commercial purposes.
thicketnoun	A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.
woodlandnoun	(loosely) Land covered with woody vegetation.
bushnoun	(horticulture) A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category.
wildernessnoun	(uncountable) Uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state inhabited by wild animals and with vegetation growing wild; (countable) a tract of such land; a waste or wild.
canopynoun	The zone of the highest foliage and branches of a forest.
tanglenoun	A tangled twisted mass.
labyrinthnoun	A complicated irregular network of passages or paths, especially underground or covered, in which it is difficult to find one's way.
mazenoun	A labyrinth; a puzzle consisting of a complicated network of paths or passages, the aim of which is to find one's way through.
wildnoun	(chiefly in the plural) A wilderness.
scrubnoun	(countable, derogatory) One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.
savagenoun	(figuratively) An aggressively defiant person.
jumblenoun	A mixture of often unrelated things.
messnoun	a thing or group of things in a disagreeable, disorganised, or dirty state; hence a bad situation
chaosnoun	Any state of disorder; a confused or amorphous mixture or conglomeration.
toughnoun	A person who obtains things by force; a thug or bully.
strangenoun	(slang, uncountable) Sex outside of one's current relationship.