Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun 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.
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- noun a
forest in aclimate with high annualrainfall and no dry season
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- noun a forest with heavy annual rainfall
Etymologies
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Examples
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And then because the rainforest is gone, it eventually becomes a desert.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Sucking the Life Out of the Environmental Movement 2009
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Another use for the clearcut rainforest is palm trees for palm oil or soybeans for cattle and vegetarians.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Sucking the Life Out of the Environmental Movement 2009
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But gosh they sure can tell me the rainforest is disappearing, animals are dying, and the Earth is getting warmer.
Wayne Hale: NASA Can Provide the Inspiration - NASA Watch 2009
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Seek out an untrafficked river in rainforest preferably.
Personal Leave zombietron 2009
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The Canopy Tower hotel, a former U.S. radar installation, is surrounded by virgin rainforest and exotic wildlife.
Strange Paradise 2009
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The Canopy Tower hotel, a former U.S. radar installation, is surrounded by virgin rainforest and exotic wildlife.
Strange Paradise 2009
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Now 52, she is a disciple of the slain rainforest activist Chico Mendes, and an early member of the Workers Party.
Rousseff Faces Runoff in Brazil John Lyons 2010
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Seek out an untrafficked river in rainforest preferably.
Archive 2009-02-01 zombietron 2009
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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.
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The surroundings of this town are green and lush pastures, with the odd smattering of virgin rainforest too stubborn to be felled.
sense of place 2008
slumry commented on the word rainforest
Spotted owls, among others, love temperate rainforests.
July 11, 2007