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jun⋅gle
[juhng-guh
l] 
–noun
| 1. | a wild land overgrown with dense vegetation, often nearly impenetrable, esp. tropical vegetation or a tropical rain forest. |
| 2. | a tract of such land. |
| 3. | a wilderness of dense overgrowth; a piece of swampy, thickset forestland. |
| 4. | any confused mass or agglomeration of objects; jumble: a jungle of wrecked automobiles. |
| 5. | something that baffles or perplexes; maze: a jungle of legal double-talk. |
| 6. | a scene of violence and struggle for survival: The neglected prison was a jungle for its inmates. |
| 7. | a place or situation of ruthless competition: the advertising jungle. |
| 8. | Slang. a hobo camp. |
Origin:
1770–80; < Hindi jaṅgal < Pali, Prakrit jaṅgala rough, waterless place
1770–80; < Hindi jaṅgal < Pali, Prakrit jaṅgala rough, waterless place
Related forms:
jungled, adjective
Jungle, The
–noun
| a novel (1906) by Upton Sinclair. |
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| jun·gle (jŭng'gəl) n.
[Ultimately from Sanskrit jaṅgalam, desert, wasteland, uncultivated area, from jaṅgala-, desert, waste.] jun'gly (-glē) adj. |
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Jungle
Jun"gle\, n. [Hind. jangal desert, forest, jungle; Skr. ja?gala desert.] 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. The jungles of India are of bamboos, canes, and other palms, very difficult to penetrate. -- Balfour (Cyc. of India). Jungle bear (Zo["o]l.), the aswail or sloth bear. Jungle cat (Zo["o]l.), the chaus. Jungle cock (Zo["o]l.), the male of a jungle fowl. Jungle fowl. (Zo["o]l.) (a) Any wild species of the genus Gallus, of which several species inhabit India and the adjacent islands; as, the fork-tailed jungle fowl (G. varius) of Java, G. Stanleyi of Ceylon, and G. Bankiva of India. Note: The latter, which resembles the domestic gamecock, is supposed to be one of the original species from which the domestic fowl was derived. (b) 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.
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Language Translation for : jungle
Spanish:
selva,
German:
der Dschungel,
Japanese:
密林
jungle
1776, from Hindi jangal "desert, forest, wasteland, uncultivated ground," from Skt. jangala-s "arid, sparsely grown with trees," of unknown origin. Specific sense of "land overgrown by vegetation in a wild, tangled mass" is first recorded 1849; meaning "place notoriously lawless and violent" is first recorded 1906, from Upton Sinclair's novel (cf. asphalt jungle, 1949; blackboard jungle, 1954). Jungle gym was a trademark name, 1923, by Junglegym Inc., Chicago, U.S. Jungle bunny, derogatory for "black person," attested from 1966.
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jungle
see law of the jungle.
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