rainforest

See also: rain forest

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rainforest

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Alternative forms

• rain forest

Etymology

From rain +‎ forest, a calque of German Regenwald.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪn.fɒɹ.ɪst/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪn.fɔɹ.ɪst/

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Noun

rainforest (countable and uncountable, plural rainforests)

1. A forest in a climate with high annual rainfall and no dry season.
   • 2002, Chris C. Park, Tropical Rainforests, page 27:

     Perhaps the most impressive expression of species diversity is the density of species found in a given area of rainforest.

   • 2004, Nigel E. Stork, “24: The Theory and Practice of Planning for Long-Term Conservation of Biodiversity of Wet Tropics Rainforests in Australia”, in Eldredge Bermingham, Christopher W. Dick, Craig Moritz, editors, Tropical Rainforests: Past, Present, and Future, page 508:

     Tropical rainforests in Australia have suffered a fate similar in many ways to that of rainforests elsewhere in the world, but considerable progress in safeguarding the future of what remains has been made.

   • 2014, Nick Hunter, Rainforests, page 38:

     Enjoy your visit to the rainforests, because the next time you go there things could be very different.

   • 2021 June 22, Sam Romano, “Rainforests are under siege. Here’s what you should know.”, in CNN‎:

     Some researchers worry that rainforests will soon reach a tipping point — a point of no return in which the once-lush forests transition to arid regions.

   • 2025 April 4, Lex Harvey and Esha Mitra, “US tourist arrested after allegedly attempting to contact ‘world’s most isolated’ tribe”, in CNN‎:

     The Sentinelese hunt in the rainforest and fish in the coastal waters using spears, bows and arrows, as well as homemade narrow outrigger canoes, according to Survival International.

Synonyms

• jungle, tropical forest

Derived terms

• nonrainforest
• rainforestation
• rainforested
• rainforestless
• rainforestlike
• rainforest mystic
• temperate rainforest
• tropical rainforest

Translations

type of forest — see also jungle

Arabic: غَابَة اِسْتِوَائِيَّة f (ḡāba(t) istiwāʔiyya) Bulgarian: дъждовна гора f (dǎždovna gora) Catalan: selva pluvial f Chinese: Mandarin: 雨林 (zh) (yǔlín) Cornish: koswik law f Czech: deštný prales m, deštný les m Danish: regnskov (da) c Dutch: regenwoud (nl) n Esperanto: pluvarbaro Estonian: vihmamets Faroese: regnskógur Finnish: sademetsä (fi) French: pluvisylve f, pluvisilve f, forêt pluviale f, forêt pluvieuse f, forêt tropicale f Georgian: ჭარბტენიანი ტყე (č̣arbṭeniani ṭq̇e), ტროპიკული ტყე (ṭroṗiḳuli ṭq̇e) German: Regenwald (de) m Greek: τροπικό δάσος (el) n (tropikó dásos), βροχοδάσος (el) n (vrochodásos) Hebrew: יער גשם (he) Hindi: वर्षावन m (varṣāvan) Hungarian: esőerdő (hu) Icelandic: regnskógur (is) m Irish: foraois bháistí f Italian: foresta pluviale f Japanese: 雨林 (うりん, urin), 多雨林 (たうりん, taurin) Kannada: ಮಳೆಕಾಡು (kn) (maḷekāḍu) Latvian: lietus mežs Lithuanian: drėgnasis miškas Macedonian: дождовна шума f (doždovna šuma) Malay: hutan hujan (ms) Maori: ngahere pārūrū (in the tropics), ngāoreore Mongolian: Cyrillic: ширэнгэн ой (širengen oj) Navajo: hodíłchʼil níłtsánígíí Northern Sami: arvevuovdi Norwegian: Bokmål: regnskog (no) m, regnskau (no) m Nynorsk: regnskog m Persian: جنگل بارانی (fa) Pitcairn-Norfolk: stik Polish: las deszczowy (pl) m Portuguese: floresta tropical f, floresta húmida f, floresta ombrófila f, floresta pluvial f Romanian: pădure tropicală f Russian: дождево́й лес m (doždevój les), се́льва (ru) f (sélʹva) Scottish Gaelic: coille-uisge f Serbo-Croatian: pràšuma (sh) f Slovak: dažďový les m Slovene: deževni gozd m Spanish: bosque tropical m, bosque hidrofítico m, pluviselva (es) f, foresta pluvial f, foresta pluviosa f Swedish: regnskog (sv) c Thai: ป่าฝน (bpàa-fǒn), ป่าดิบชื้น (bpàa-dìp-chʉ́ʉn) Turkish: yağmur ormanı (tr) Ukrainian: дощовий ліс m (doščovyj lis) Vietnamese: rừng mưa Welsh: fforest law f

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