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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
jun·gle       [juhng-guhl] Pronunciation Key
–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]

—Related forms
jungled, adjective
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jun·gle       (jŭng'gəl)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. Land densely overgrown with tropical vegetation.
  2. A dense thicket or growth.
  3. A dense, confused mass; a jumble.
  4. Something made up of many confused elements; a bewildering complex or maze: sorting through the jungle of regulations.
  5. A place or milieu characterized by intense, often ruthless competition or struggle for survival: the corporate jungle.
  6. Slang A place where hoboes camp.


[Ultimately from Sanskrit jaṅgalam, desert, wasteland, uncultivated area, from jaṅgala-, desert, waste.]

jun'gly (-glē) adj.
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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jungle

noun
1. a location marked by an intense competition and struggle for survival 
2. a place where hoboes camp [syn: hobo camp] 
3. an impenetrable equatorial forest 

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
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American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms - Cite This Source - Share This

jungle

see law of the jungle.


The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

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.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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