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rainforest
[ reyn-fawr-ist, ‐-for‐ ]
noun
- a tropical forest, usually of tall, densely growing, broad-leaved evergreen trees in an area of high annual rainfall.
rainforest
/ ˈreɪnˌfɒrɪst /
noun
- dense forest found in tropical areas of heavy rainfall. The trees are broad-leaved and evergreen, and the vegetation tends to grow in three layers (undergrowth, intermediate trees and shrubs, and very tall trees, which form a canopy) Also calledselva
rainforest
/ rān′fôr′ĭst /
- A dense evergreen forest with an annual rainfall of at least 406 cm (160 inches).
Word History and Origins
Origin of rainforest1
A Closer Look
Example Sentences
Four closely related civets, a small nocturnal animal found in Africa and Asia, have made the same geographical area in the rainforests of Borneo home.
And it offered a stark split-screen on Sunday to a historic visit President Joe Biden, who became the first sitting US president to go to the Amazon, the world's largest tropical rainforest.
Consider the experience of communities in Borneo — an island that’s home to poor, rural villages scattered throughout one of the world’s major rainforests, threatened by deforestation.
Our southernmost continent was actually once so green it was covered in rainforests 90 million years ago, at a time when carbon dioxide levels were much higher than today.
Dry weather has fuelled wildfires across the country devastating large parts of the Amazon rainforest and Pantanal wetlands as well as choking major cities with smoke.
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