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jungle
/ˈdʒʌŋɡəl/
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What does jungle mean?
noun
- A large, lush, undeveloped, humid forest, especially in a tropical region, thick with vegetation and wildlife; a tropical rainforest.
- Any uncultivated tract of forest or scrub habitat.
- A place where people behave ruthlessly, unconstrained by law or morality.
More meanings (6)
noun
- (figuratively) A tangled mess.
- (slang) An area where hobos camp together.
- A style of electronic dance music and precursor of drum and bass.
- (slang) Dense rough.
- (slang) A dense mass of pubic hair.
adjective
- resembling the fast-paced drumming of traditional peoples of the jungle.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈdʒʌŋɡəl/
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For a long time no sound broke the deathlike stillness of the jungle midday save the piteous wailing of the tiny man-child.
The rich carpet beneath my feet ceased to be as a jungle and became a normal carpet--extraordinarily rich, but merely a carpet.
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More trees stood in the middle of it, but the undergrowth and the jungle grass at the sides had been rolled back.
Religious conviction gives us a general direction, but it stands aside from many of these entangled struggles in the jungle of conscience.
After appropriate greetings, we learned that these were the chief and his prime minister of a nearby village hidden in the jungle.