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JUNGLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does jungly mean?
• JUNGLY (adjective)
The adjective JUNGLY has 1 sense:
1. overgrown with tropical vegetation
Familiarity information: JUNGLY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Overgrown with tropical vegetation
Similar:
wooded (covered with growing trees and bushes etc)
Derivation:
jungle (an impenetrable equatorial forest)
Context examples
Below, it is a swampy, jungly region, full of snakes, insects, and fever.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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