mangrove

English

Wikipedia

A red mangrove growing in shallow water (Rhizophora mangle)

Etymology

Circa 1610, corruption of earlier mangrow by folk etymology influence of grove, from Portuguese mangue, from Spanish mangle (or directly from Spanish), from a Caribbean language, possibly Taino, another Arawakan language, or a Cariban language.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈmæŋɡrəʊv/
• (US) IPA: /ˈmæŋɡroʊv/

Noun

mangrove (plural mangroves)

1. Any of various tropical evergreen trees or shrubs that grow in shallow coastal water.
2. A habitat with such plants; mangrove forest; mangrove swamp.
3. Plants of the Rhizophoraceae family.
4. Trees of the genus Rhizophora.

Translations

tropical tree or shrub that grows in shallow water

• Catalan: mangle (ca) m
• Chinese: 

  Mandarin: (mangrove tree) 紅樹 (cmn), 红树 (cmn) (hóngshù)

• Finnish: mangrove (fi), mangrovekasvi (fi)
• French: palétuvier (fr) m
• German: Mangrovenbaum (de) m

• Hiligaynon: bakhaw
• Icelandic: leiruviðarskógur (is)
• Japanese: マングローブ (ja) (mangurōbu)
• Malay: bakau (ms)
• Maori: mānawa (mi), paetai (mi)
• Russian: мангровое дерево (ru) (mángrovoje dérevo) n , мангр (ru) (mangr) m 
• Spanish: mangle (es) m
• Swedish: mangrove (sv) c

habitat

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (mangrove forest) 紅樹林 (cmn), 红树林 (cmn) (hóngshùlín)

• Finnish: mangrovesuo (fi), mangrovemetsä (fi)

plant of the Rhizophoraceae family

• Finnish: mangrove (fi), mangrovepuukasvi (fi)

tree of the genus Rhizophora

• Finnish: mangrove (fi), mangrovepuu (fi)

Anagrams

• venogram

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈmɑŋro̞ʋe̞/
• Hyphenation: man‧gro‧ve

Noun

mangrove

1. mangrove (tropical tree or shrub of any taxon that grows in shallow water)

Declension

• Also mangroveiden is often used for genitive plural.

Declension of mangrove (type nalle) singular plural nominative mangrove mangrovet genitive mangroven mangrovejen mangrovein1 partitive mangrovea mangroveja accusative mangrove mangroven mangrovet inessive mangrovessa mangroveissa elative mangrovesta mangroveista illative mangroveen mangroveihin adessive mangrovella mangroveilla ablative mangrovelta mangroveilta allative mangrovelle mangroveille essive mangrovena mangroveina translative mangroveksi mangroveiksi instructive – mangrovein abessive mangrovetta mangroveitta comitative – mangroveineen 1) Rare.

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Italian

Noun

mangrove f

1. Plural form of mangrova