jungle 音标拼音: [dʒ'ʌŋgəl]
n . 丛林,生死关头
丛林,生死关头
jungle n 1 :
a location marked by an intense competition and struggle for survival 2 :
a place where hoboes camp [
synonym : {
hobo camp }, {
jungle }]
3 :
an impenetrable equatorial forest Jungle \
Jun "
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n . [
Hind .
jangal desert ,
forest ,
jungle ;
Skr .
ja [.
n ]
gala desert .]
1 .
A dense growth of brushwood ,
grasses ,
reeds ,
vines ,
etc .;
an almost impenetrable thicket of trees ,
canes ,
and reedy vegetation ,
as in India ,
Africa ,
Australia ,
and Brazil .
The jungles of India are of bamboos ,
canes ,
and other palms ,
very difficult to penetrate . --
Balfour (
Cyc .
of India ).
[
1913 Webster ]
2 .
Hence : (
Fig .)
A place of danger or ruthless competition for survival . /'
bdIt '
s a jungle out there ./'
b8 [
PJC ]
3 .
Anything which causes confusion or difficulty due to intricacy ;
as ,
a jungle of environmental regulations .
--
MW10 .
[
PJC ]
{
Jungle bear } (
Zool .),
the aswail or sloth bear .
{
Jungle cat } (
Zool .),
the chaus .
{
Jungle cock } (
Zool .),
the male of a jungle fowl .
{
Jungle fowl }. (
Zool .)
(
a )
Any wild species of the genus {
Gallus },
of which several species inhabit India and the adjacent islands ;
as ,
the fork -
tailed jungle fowl ({
Gallus varius })
of Java , {
Gallus Stanleyi }
of Ceylon ,
and {
Gallus Bankiva }
of India .
Note :
The latter ,
which resembles the domestic gamecock ,
is supposed to be one of the original species from which the domestic fowl was derived .
(
b )
An Australian grallatorial bird ({
Megapodius tumulus })
which is allied to the brush turkey ,
and ,
like the latter ,
lays its eggs in mounds of vegetable matter ,
where they are hatched by the heat produced by decomposition .
[
1913 Webster ]
77 Moby Thesaurus words for "
jungle ":
Chinese puzzle ,
Gordian knot ,
Rube Goldberg contraption ,
afforestation ,
arboretum ,
boondocks ,
bush ,
bushveld ,
can of worms ,
chase ,
climax forest ,
cloud forest ,
complex ,
dendrology ,
forest ,
forest land ,
forest preserve ,
forestry ,
fringing forest ,
gallery forest ,
greenwood ,
hanger ,
hash ,
hugger -
mugger ,
index forest ,
jumble ,
jungles ,
knot ,
labyrinth ,
litter ,
mash ,
maze ,
meander ,
mesh ,
mess ,
mishmash ,
morass ,
muddle ,
national forest ,
palmetto barrens ,
park ,
park forest ,
perplex ,
pine barrens ,
primeval forest ,
protection forest ,
rain forest ,
ravel ,
reforestation ,
rummage ,
scramble ,
scrub ,
scrubland ,
selection forest ,
shrubland ,
silviculture ,
skein ,
snafu ,
snake pit ,
snarl ,
sprout forest ,
stand of timber ,
state forest ,
tangle ,
tangled skein ,
timber ,
timberland ,
tree veld ,
virgin forest ,
web ,
webwork ,
wheels within wheels ,
wilderness ,
wildwood ,
wood ,
woodland ,
woods
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Jungle - Wikipedia A jungle is land covered with dense forest and tangled vegetation, usually in tropical climates Application of the term has varied greatly during the past century
Jungle | Britannica jungle, tropical forest with luxuriant, tangled, impenetrable vegetation, generally teeming with wildlife; popularly associated with the tropics See rainforest
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JUNGLE Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com JUNGLE definition: a wild land overgrown with dense vegetation, often nearly impenetrable, especially tropical vegetation or a tropical rainforest See examples of jungle used in a sentence
JUNGLE Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster The meaning of JUNGLE is an impenetrable thicket or tangled mass of tropical vegetation How to use jungle in a sentence
JUNGLE definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary A jungle is a forest in a tropical country where large numbers of tall trees and plants grow very close together
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JUNGLE definition in American English | Collins English Dictionary If you describe a situation as a jungle, you dislike it because it is complicated and difficult to get what you want from it
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