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# jungle

«jungle» in Mova's school dictionary: **A thick, warm, wet forest in a hot country, full of…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a jungle, jungles)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A thick, warm, wet forest in a hot country, full of trees, plants and animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jungle/#m1)

2) A place that is wild, messy or hard to get through (the garden is a jungle). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jungle/#m2)

3) A place where people compete hard and roughly (it's a jungle out there). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jungle/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and science: jungles and rainforests grow near the equator; tigers, monkeys and parrots live there. In stories and films: explorers cut through the jungle. Phrases: the jungle, jungle gym (playground climbing frame, US), concrete jungle (a big city).

### examples

- Monkeys swing through the trees of the jungle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jungle/#x1)
- Tigers live in the jungles of India. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jungle/#x2)
- Our back garden is a jungle after the summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jungle/#x3)
- We played on the jungle gym at break (US). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jungle/#x4)
- The city is a concrete jungle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jungle/#x5)
- The explorers got lost in the jungle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jungle/#x6)
- It rains almost every day in the jungle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jungle/#x7)
- I had never seen the jungle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jungle/#x8)

### note

Countable noun. "Jungle" and "rainforest" overlap; scientists usually say "rainforest", and "jungle" is the thick, tangled part. Myth: lions are called "king of the jungle" but they live in grasslands (savannah), not jungles.

### In the corpora

- [Jungle and survival shows have doctors, crews and safety rules behind the camera, even when the people look all alone.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/54-reality-tv-what-is-staged-and-what-is-real/15/)
- [Bagheera in The Jungle Book is a black leopard.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/367-animal-colours-pink-flamingos-rare-blue-animals-white-albinos-and-black-panthers/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «jungle» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jungle/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.