Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A dense evergreen forest with an annual rainfall of at least 406 centimeters (160 inches). Rainforests are often, but not always, located in tropical regions.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. a forest with heavy annual rainfall
Etymologies
- rain + forest, a calque of German Regenwald. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The Canopy Tower hotel, a former U.S. radar installation, is surrounded by virgin rainforest and exotic wildlife.”
“But gosh they sure can tell me the rainforest is disappearing, animals are dying, and the Earth is getting warmer.”
“Now 52, she is a disciple of the slain rainforest activist Chico Mendes, and an early member of the Workers Party.”
“And then because the rainforest is gone, it eventually becomes a desert.”
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“Another use for the clearcut rainforest is palm trees for palm oil or soybeans for cattle and vegetarians.”
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“Seek out an untrafficked river in rainforest preferably.”
“In this region of the isthmus of Panama the rainforest is extremely dense, and the only means of travelling there is to go upriver by pirogue.”
“The surroundings of this town are green and lush pastures, with the odd smattering of virgin rainforest too stubborn to be felled.”
““The rainforest is more important to me at the moment,” said Eliasch.”
“You know how, when your local rainforest is out of ebony and you really wanted some for that”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘rainforest’.
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Rain
rain, Purple Rain, drain, rainbow, grain, rain shadow, rainforest, raindrops keep fa..., rain, rain, go away, Rainn Wilson, Black Rain, rainbow trout and 55 more...
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Earth-Friendly Organic Produce
An Ecosystem of earth/life-related words.
blueskycloudform, sojourn, reuse, reduce, compostable, habitat, ecology, bionomics, Eco-Art, sustainability, forest garden, biosystems and 47 more...
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Man Unmade
As we plod and pillage our way through another century, words our great-grandchildren likely won't have a use for...for better or worse.
bucolic, gasoline, farmer, cold, rainforest, incurable, rusticate, landlubber, martial law, polar bear, polar ice cap, nuclear winter and 1 more...
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What, another list?
ravishing, ravenous, pronk, brinksmanship, jaspe, mottle, chasm, testy, temperament, ponder, personally, phantom and 206 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, R
retinol, rectory, rhubarb, rancor, recension, rood, redivivus, roborate, redound, ripsnorting, ragtag, recruit and 250 more...
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a red-headed adventurer
wanderlust, leather-bound, future, path, rewinding, sepia, dusk, chasing, moonlight, stowaway, bandannas, princesses and 4 more...
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Tsic! tsic! tsic!
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potto, prosimian, strepsirrhine, toothcomb, gum, primate, vertebrae, groom, pelage, nocturnal, claw, canopy and 20 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for rainforest.
slumry Spotted owls, among others, love temperate rainforests. Jul 11, 2007