Jungle
['dʒʌŋg(ə)l] or ['dʒʌŋɡl]
Definition
(noun.) an impenetrable equatorial forest.
(noun.) a location marked by an intense competition and struggle for survival.
Typist: Wanda--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
Edited by Angus
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Thicket (of brushwood, shrubs, and woods), brake.
Typist: Shelby
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Thicket, brake, involution, ravelling, entanglement, labyrinth, wilderness
ANT:Open_place, order, arrangement, array, system
Checker: Scott
Definition
n. land covered with thick brushwood &c.—ns. Jungle-fē′ver a severe malarial or remittent fever; Jung′le-fowl a wild species of genus Gallus the parent of our barn-door fowl.—adj. Jung′ly.
Inputed by Enoch
Examples
- At his feet an opening looked out upon a green sward, and at a little distance beyond was the dense wall of jungle and forest. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The lower levels of the Mesozoic land were no doubt covered by great fern brakes and shrubby bush and a kind of jungle growth of trees. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Early the next morning the apes were astir, moving through the jungle in search of food. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Author of HEAVY GAME OF THE WESTERN HIMALAYAS (1881); THREE MONTHS IN THE JUNGLE (1884). Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He had taken scarce a dozen steps toward the jungle when a great form rose up before him from the shadows of a low bush. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- She realized the spell that had been upon her in the depths of that far-off jungle, but there was no spell of enchantment now in prosaic Wisconsin. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The myriad noises of the jungle seemed far distant and hushed to a mere echo of blurred sounds, rising and falling like the surf upon a remote shore. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Here Tarzan released them, and, pointing toward the little building, vanished into the jungle beside them. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- But he was as lonely here as in his jungle at Boggley Wollah. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The two halted at the edge of the jungle. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Instantly, Clayton, followed by the two old men, plunged into the jungle, calling the girl's name aloud. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Close around them loomed the impenetrable blackness of the jungle. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- It was as if a committee of jungle deer had taken and killed a tiger--a crime against nature. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Had he left her there to her fate in the lonely jungle? Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- We have been lost in the jungle for a long time. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- They must have had a grotesque resemblance to heraldic dragons, and they played the part of bat-like birds in the Mesozoic jungles. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A gigantic battle against floods and torrents, pestilence and swamps, tropical rivers, jungles and rock-ribbed mountains had been fought--and won! Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The great necessity for more durable carbons became a desideratum so urgent that the tireless inventor decided to commission another explorer to search the tropical jungles of the Orient. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Edited by Lizzie