rainforest

See also: rain forest

English

Rainforest in Daintree National Park, Australia

Alternative forms

rain forest

Etymology

From rain +‎ forest, a calque of German Regenwald.

Pronunciation

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Noun

rainforest (countable and uncountable, plural rainforests)

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, 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.

Synonyms

jungle, tropical forest

Translations

type of forest

Bulgarian: дъждовна гора f (dǎždovna gora)
Catalan: selva pluvial 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
German: Regenwald (de) m
Greek: τροπικό δάσος n (tropikó dásos)
Hebrew: יער גשם‎ (he)
Hungarian: esőerdő (hu)
Icelandic: regnskógur (is) m
Italian: foresta pluviale f
Japanese: 熱帯雨林 (nettai-urin)
Kannada: ಮಳೆಕಾಡು (kn) (maḷekāḍu)
Latvian: lietus mežs
Lithuanian: drėgnasis miškas
Macedonian: дождовна шума f (doždovna šuma)
Mandarin: 熱帯雨林 (zh)
Maori: ngahere pārūrū (in the tropics)
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
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
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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