■ noun
1》 an area of land with dense forest and tangled vegetation, typically in the tropics.
2》 a very competitive or complex situation or place.
3》 (also ~ music ) a style of dance music with very fast electronic drum tracks and slower synthesized bass lines.
Phrases
the law of the ~ the principle that those who are strongest and most selfish will be most successful.
Derivatives
~d adjective
junglist noun & adjective
jungly adjective
Origin
C18: via Hindi from Sanskrit jāṅgala 'rough and arid (terrain)'.