RAIN FOREST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rain forest mean? 

• RAIN FOREST (noun)
  The noun RAIN FOREST has 1 sense:

1. a forest with heavy annual rainfall

  Familiarity information: RAIN FOREST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAIN FOREST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A forest with heavy annual rainfall

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

rain forest; rainforest

Hypernyms ("rain forest" is a kind of...):

forest; wood; woods (the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rain forest"):

temperate rain forest (a rain forest in a temperate area)

selva; tropical rain forest (a rain forest in a tropical area)

 Context examples 

The African rain forest may have served as the cradle of termite agriculture.

(Researchers discover oldest evidence of 'farming' by insects, NSF)

Pan troglodytes, an anthropoid ape that inhabits the tropical rain forests of Africa and is used for experimental purposes because of its susceptibility to some human diseases and in behavioral studies because of its high level of intelligence.

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