rainforest

English

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Alternative forms

• rain forest

Etymology

rain +‎ forest, a calque of German Regenwald.

Noun

rainforest (plural rainforests)

1. a forest in a climate with high annual rainfall and no dry season

Synonyms

• jungle, tropical forest

Translations

a forest in a climate with high annual rainfall and no dry season

• Czech: deštný prales (cs) m, deštný les (cs) m
• Danish: regnskov (da) c
• Dutch: regenwoud (nl) n
• Esperanto: pluvarbaro (eo)
• Estonian: vihmamets (et)
• Finnish: sademetsä (fi)
• French: forêt tropicale (fr) f, forêt humide (fr) f
• German: Regenwald (de) m
• Hungarian: esőerdő (hu)
• Icelandic: regnskógur (is) m
• Japanese: 熱帯雨林 (nettai-urin)
• Mandarin: 熱帯雨林 (cmn)

• Navajo: hodíłchʼil níłtsánígíí
• Northern Sami: arvevuovdi
• Norwegian (bokmål): regnskog (no) m
• Pitcairn-Norfolk: stik
• Polish: las deszczowy (pl) m
• Portuguese: floresta tropical f
• Romanian: pădure tropicală f
• Russian: тропический лес (tropíčeskij les) m
• Serbo-Croatian: pràšuma (sh) f
• Spanish: bosque tropical m, bosque hidrofítico m, pluviselva (es) f
• Swedish: regnskog (sv) c
• Turkish: yağmur ormanı (tr)