Jungle

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  • noun. Land covered with a dense growth of tropical vegetation.
  • noun. A dense thicket or growth.
  • noun. A dense, confused mass; a jumble.
  • noun. Something made up of many confused elements; a bewildering complex or maze.
  • noun. A place or milieu characterized by intense, often ruthless competition or struggle for survival.
  • noun. A place where hoboes camp.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A dense growth of rank and tangled vegetation, large and small, often nearly impenetrable, such as is characteristic of some parts of India, especially in the swampy regions at the base of the Himalaya mountains.
  • noun. A tract of land covered by such vegetation; a wilderness of dense overgrowth; a piece of swampy thickset forest-land.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A dense growth of brushwood, grasses, reeds, vines, etc.; an almost impenetrable thicket of trees, canes, and reedy vegetation, as in India, Africa, Australia, and Brazil.
  • noun. A place of danger or ruthless competition for survival.
  • noun. Anything which causes confusion or difficulty due to intricacy.
  • noun. the aswail or sloth bear.
  • noun. the chaus.
  • noun. the male of a jungle fowl.
  • noun. An Australian grallatorial bird (Megapodius tumulus) which is allied to the brush turkey, and, like the latter, lays its eggs in mounds of vegetable matter, where they are hatched by the heat produced by decomposition.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A large, undeveloped, humid forest, especially in a tropical region, that is home to many wild plants and animals.
  • noun. A place where people behave ruthlessly, unconstrained by law or morality.
  • noun. An area where hobos camp together.
  • noun. A style of electronic music related to drum and bass.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an impenetrable equatorial forest
  • noun. a place where hoboes camp
  • noun. a location marked by an intense competition and struggle for survival
  • Word Usage
    "A growing cadre of integrative medicine professionals recognizes the acronym jungle of the emerging ACOs (Accountable Care Organizations) and PCMHs (Patient Centered Medical Homes) as a fertile host for mushrooming use of integrative care."
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    Woods  camp  forest  wood  
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    bush  cave  cliff  forest  garden  
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