JUNGLE


Meaning of JUNGLE in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

concrete jungle

dense forest/wood/woodland/jungle

Their helicopter could not land because of the dense jungle.

jungle gym

jungle warfare

The Japanese had been trained in jungle warfare.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

concrete

Val d'Isere because the skiing is just so brill and Tignes is, well, a concrete jungle really.

deep

It's also necessary to feign surprise when you notice that global culture falls like rain into deepest jungle or wildest steppe.

In Chiapas, a few thousand Lacandons live by choice in the deepest jungle .

At the fishing village of Barra del Tordo, most of the deep jungle that once lined the Carrizales River is gone.

dense

Army helicopters could not land because of the mountainous terrain and dense jungle .

The lake grows fish as prolifically as its bed once grew the trees of a dense jungle .

For two days we travelled through dense alien jungle .

The tiger gained its stripes by evolving in dense jungle and wet, reedy areas.

The lakes are certainly there but they are hidden in dense jungle , only accessible by a network of sandy tracks.

tropical

Around the coast and in river valleys there are stretches of tropical jungle with pythons and other snakes.

The general effect was of a tropical jungle , made somehow rich and sinfully luxurious.

■ NOUN

drum

The booming surf far below called to her like the beat of a jungle drum .

Either she could hear jungle drums or the beating of her own heart.

Obviously the jungle drums had been busy after my first visit.

The jungle drums were beating again.

gym

Agile border jumpers sometimes climbed over the gates of unattended booths as if they were jungle gyms , officials said.

He turned to me and nodded gravely, and five minutes later he was hanging from the jungle gym beside another boy.

The place looked like a jungle gym .

warfare

Now the guides' training in jungle warfare came into its own.

For jungle warfare , Charlie had much better weapons: the AK47.

■ VERB

live

They wore camouflage uniform and, from the looks of them, had been living long in the jungle .

Yumbu and Minko are a black boy and a black girl who live in this jungle village.

But they lived in jungles , Tarzan and Mowgli.

Marcia had lived in the jungle for nine years.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

the law of the jungle

But it is better than the law of the jungle, where might equals right.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

I don't see New York as some awful jungle .

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