noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
concrete jungle
dense forest/wood/woodland/jungle
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Their helicopter could not land because of the dense jungle.
jungle gym
jungle warfare
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The Japanese had been trained in jungle warfare.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
concrete
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Val d'Isere because the skiing is just so brill and Tignes is, well, a concrete jungle really.
deep
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It's also necessary to feign surprise when you notice that global culture falls like rain into deepest jungle or wildest steppe.
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In Chiapas, a few thousand Lacandons live by choice in the deepest jungle .
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At the fishing village of Barra del Tordo, most of the deep jungle that once lined the Carrizales River is gone.
dense
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Army helicopters could not land because of the mountainous terrain and dense jungle .
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The lake grows fish as prolifically as its bed once grew the trees of a dense jungle .
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For two days we travelled through dense alien jungle .
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The tiger gained its stripes by evolving in dense jungle and wet, reedy areas.
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The lakes are certainly there but they are hidden in dense jungle , only accessible by a network of sandy tracks.
tropical
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Around the coast and in river valleys there are stretches of tropical jungle with pythons and other snakes.
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The general effect was of a tropical jungle , made somehow rich and sinfully luxurious.
■ NOUN
drum
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The booming surf far below called to her like the beat of a jungle drum .
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Either she could hear jungle drums or the beating of her own heart.
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Obviously the jungle drums had been busy after my first visit.
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The jungle drums were beating again.
gym
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Agile border jumpers sometimes climbed over the gates of unattended booths as if they were jungle gyms , officials said.
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He turned to me and nodded gravely, and five minutes later he was hanging from the jungle gym beside another boy.
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The place looked like a jungle gym .
warfare
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Now the guides' training in jungle warfare came into its own.
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For jungle warfare , Charlie had much better weapons: the AK47.
■ VERB
live
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They wore camouflage uniform and, from the looks of them, had been living long in the jungle .
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Yumbu and Minko are a black boy and a black girl who live in this jungle village.
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But they lived in jungles , Tarzan and Mowgli.
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Marcia had lived in the jungle for nine years.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the law of the jungle
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But it is better than the law of the jungle, where might equals right.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I don't see New York as some awful jungle .