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Synonyms for rain forest


Grammar : Noun



Définition of rain forest

Origin :
  • 1899, apparently a loan-translation of German Regenwald, coined by A.F.W. Schimper for his 1898 work "Pflanzengeographie."
  • noun forest with heavy rainfall
Example sentences :
  • The northwestern half of the island is rain forest and is nearly uninhabited.
  • Extract from : « Systematics of Megachiropteran Bats in the Solomon Islands » by Carleton J. Phillips
  • On the leeward sides, patches of rain forest are found only in the moister areas.
  • Extract from : « A Racial Study of the Fijians » by Norman E. Gabel
  • Yet in ancient times the northern border of the rain forest was the seat of America's most advanced civilization.
  • Extract from : « The Red Man's Continent » by Ellsworth Huntington
  • Tropical jungle borders the rain forest all the way from southern Mexico to southern Brazil.
  • Extract from : « The Red Man's Continent » by Ellsworth Huntington
  • Aside from the rain forest there are two other types in tropical countries—jungle and scrub.
  • Extract from : « The Red Man's Continent » by Ellsworth Huntington
  • Williams made an ecological study of the floor fauna of the Panama rain forest.
  • Extract from : « The Biotic Associations of Cockroaches » by Louis M. Roth
  • An ecological study of the floor fauna of the Panama rain forest.
  • Extract from : « The Biotic Associations of Cockroaches » by Louis M. Roth
  • In the Rain Forest zone "second growth" areas usually contain species of deciduous trees.
  • Extract from : « Summer Birds From the Yucatan Peninsula » by Erwin E. Klaas

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