Word Finder - jungle

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A large, undeveloped, humid forest, especially in a tropical region, that is home to many wild plants and animals; a tropical rainforest.

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Any uncultivated tract of forest or scrub habitat.

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A place where people behave ruthlessly, unconstrained by law or morality.

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It’s a jungle out there.

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An area where hobos camp together.

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A migrant camp.

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A style of electronic music related to drum and bass.

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(Israel) A desert region.

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Dense rough.

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• tiger country

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A hairy vulva.

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(Of musical beat, rhythm, etc.) resembling the fast-paced drumming of traditional peoples of the jungle.

At present I feel like a jungle on wheels!

But I love "The Jungle Book" and "Wild Animals I Have Known."

Toby shook his head and started forward again, wondering when Ully had lost his sense of humor.  He led them in the direction where he sensed Katie, until night and clouds rendered the jungle too dark.

Ully cursed as he moved to seek cover from the downpour.  Safe beneath his jungle roof, Toby watched him.  The brave, cheerful Ully that sat with him in Hell seemed lost in the underworld, and Toby began to suspect there was another reason their jailer, Jared, had freed them.

Darian strode away towards the large jungle gym, out of hearing distance but close enough to watch and react.

The tree vegetation consists rather of jungle or copse than forest, abounding in game which is preserved by the native chiefs.

She squinted into the jungle, trying to see Andre again.  This time, he wasn't there.

The left bank of the Oxus above Kilif is, as a rule, low and flat, with reed swamps bordering the stream and a strip of jungle between the reeds and the edge of the elevated sandy desert.

They are steep, and covered with jungle, but can be climbed by men.

The rest is open rice-land, alternating with great stretches of grass, reed jungle and bamboo scrub, much of which is under water for quite three months of the year.

We are about to land in a jungle clearing ahead.

It has been abandoned jungle since the 3rd century A.D., or perhaps earlier, so that the ruined sites, numerous through the whole district, have remained undisturbed, and further discoveries may be confidently expected.

The principal industry is the spinning and weaving of silk, chiefly from tussur or jungle silkworms. There are also several lac factories.

Near the hills and along the streams are strips and patches of jungle; the villages are usually surrounded with picturesque groves of tamarind, mango and other shadegiving trees.

Meanwhile Mrs. MacDonald, one of the women taken captive, aided by her native servant, escaped, and barefoot and in her nightdress ran through the jungle to another planter's house.

The favourite mode of shooting the tiger is from the back of elephants, or from elevated platforms (machdns) of boughs in the jungle.

The red jungle fowl (Gallus ferrugineus), supposed to be the ancestor of our own poultry, is not good eating; and the same may be said of the peacock (Pavo cristatus), except when young.

At the head of the Bay of Bengal in Chittagong district, side by side with coffee on the Nilgiri hills, on the forest-clad slopes of Kumaon and Kangra, amid the low-lying jungle of the Bhutan Dwars, and even in Arakan, the energetic pioneers of tea-planting have established their industry.

Indiscriminate timber-cutting has been prohibited, the burning of the jungle by the hill tribes has been confined within bounds, large areas have been surveyed and demarcated, plantations have been laid out, and, generally, forest conservation has become a reality.

There are sugar factories, where rum is also distilled and a few other manufactures, but the prosperity of the province depends on the "jungle" products obtained through the natives and from the plantations owned by Portuguese and worked by indentured labour, the labourers being generally "recruited" from the far interior.

The plains, however, extend over large areas, they are generally arid and are often covered with mimosa trees which form a kind of jungle called by the natives khala.

It is extremely wild, feeding by night and sleeping by day in the densest jungle.

Several kinds of parasitic jungle ticks cause much annoyance to men and to beasts.

Traces of mineral oil, iron ores, copper, zinc and antimony have been found, but the wealth of North Borneo still lies mainly in its jungle produce.

The country is rough forest and jungle land little used for cultivation.

The last section, that of the jungle tribes, is mostly of Dravidian or mixed Aryo-Dravidian origin, these tribes being the modern representatives of the former rulers and inhabitants of this country.

The gallinaceous birds include the peacock, which everywhere adorns the forest bordering on the plains, jungle fowl and several pheasants; partridges, of which the chikor may be named as most abundant, and snowpheasants and partridges, found only at the greatest elevations.

It will suffice to recall the Buddha's education in a secluded palace, his encounter successively with a decrepit old man, with a man in mortal disease and poverty, with a dead body, and, lastly, with a religious recluse radiant with peace and dignity, and his consequent abandonment of his princely state for the ascetic life in the jungle.

The district stretches out in a level plain, intersected by numerous streams and dotted with patches of jungle.

The Aravalli hills are for the most part bare of cultivation, and even of jungle.

He is said to have perished in a jungle into which he had fled from the officers of the Persian king.

Except on the south and east, where the offshoots from the surrounding hills and patches of jungle break up the country, the district consists of open plains of varying degrees of fertility, interspersed with low ranges and isolated heights.

In the north the Caspian is encircled by the level and swampy lowlands, varying in breadth from io to 30 m., partly under impenetrable jungle, partly under rice, cotton, sugar and other crops.

Fatigue kept most of the thoughts from gaining traction, and they melted away like much of her dreams did.  Gabe stopped at sunset, as darkness settled into the jungle.  Katie watched him set up a small fire.

Frustrated he couldn't help Katie while Ully was out, Toby started off again into the jungle, looking at each tree until he found one he thought he could climb.  He leapt to the lowest branch, which slithered in his grip before it wrapped around him.

The moons appeared through the branches in the jungle, almost alone in the dark sky except for a wisp of clouds floating beneath them.  She watched the clouds pass.  More came, quickly blocking the moons and stealing most of the light from the jungle.  Katie sat up and blinked until her eyes adjusted to the new level of darkness.  The sky took on an eerie silver glow, like it did in Maryland the night before a hard snow.

Something within Katie snapped at the despair in Deidre's voice.  It was the type of helpless self-pity she'd felt since entering the Immortal's world.  Katie glared at the jungle around them.

The night was long and cold.  Deidre slept, and Katie drifted between a fitful doze and her thoughts.  Dawn crept across the jungle, peering first from the tangled branches overhead then inching through the trees.  As soon as she could see well enough, Katie crawled to Deidre's feet.  The woman continued to sleep, and Katie looked her over.  She looked like any other college student in cargo pants and a light sweater.  Deidre's long, flaxen hair was in a messy braid, and her skin was pale.

The other half numbered in the hundreds.  The winged demons hovered around the portal and then took off in separate directions, swooping low above the jungle.

I'll – Hannah was gone.  Kris spun in time to see her disappear around a large tree, deeper into the jungle.  Kris looked between the two before taking off after Hannah.

She gritted her teeth in pain and sucked in a breath as she started to fall again.  She glimpsed demons hovering a short distance away over an opening in the jungle.  They looked like massive, angry hornets before disappearing from her line of sight.  A branch grabbed her arm this time and threw her back over the treetops.  This time, she faced a different direction and saw a sprawling palace the size of a mall.

The new engine made it possible to climb steeply out of jungle airstrips surrounded by tall trees.

After lunch you will transfer to Ian Anderson's Caves Branch & jungle Lodge for a three night stay in a comfortable jungle cabana.

Exotic and jungle plants including cannas, gingers, bananas, tree ferns, palms, bamboos and aroids.

For this unit you will be undertaking 4 commissions from a theme park called County Jungle.

The jungle explodes into a fiery deathtrap with roars from automatic weapons interrupting the incoherent shouts from your men.

I have to peek through the jungle foliage to see the village itself.

The red jungle fowl is the ancestral species of all domestic chicken breeds.

Journey to the River Sea is in the tradition of The Secret Garden, but set amid teeming jungle greenery.

He made his way in to the bushes then he jumped up in the jungle gym.