mangrove

See also: Mangrove

English

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 Taíno, another Arawakan language, or a Cariban language.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmæŋɡɹəʊv/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmæŋɡɹoʊv/
• Hyphenation: man‧grove

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.

Derived terms

terms derived from mangrove

• American mangrove (Rhizophora mangle)
• apple mangrove (Xylocarpus granatum (Australia))
• Asiatic mangrove (Rhizophora mucronata)
• black mangrove (Avicennia germinans; Aegiceras corniculatum, Bruguiera gymnorhiza) (Australia))
• blind-your-eye mangrove (Excoecaria agallocha (Australia))
• Burmese mangrove (Bruguiera gymnorhiza)
• button mangrove (Conocarpus erectus)
• cannonball mangrove (Xylocarpus granatum (Australia))
• cedar mangrove (Xylocarpus granatum)
• club mangrove (Aegialitis annulata)
• flat-leaved spurred mangrove (Ceriops decandra (Australia))
• freshwater mangrove (Barringtonia, Carallia brachiata (Australia))
• gray mangrove/grey mangrove (Avicennia marina)
• holly-leaf mangrove (Acanthus ilicifolius)
• holly mangrove (Acanthus ilicifolius)
• looking-glass mangrove (Heritiera littoralis)
• loop-root mangrove (Rhizophora mucronata)

• mangrove-holly (Acanthus ilicifolius)
• mangroveberry (Psidium longipes)
• mangrovevine (Rhabdadenia biflora)
• milky mangrove (Excoecaria agallocha)
• Oriental mangrove (Bruguiera gymnorhiza, Bruguiera sexangula)
• red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle, Rhizophora stylosa; Rhizophora mucronata, Heritiera littoralis (Australia))
• river mangrove (Aegiceras corniculatum)
• slender-fruit orange mangrove (Bruguiera parviflora)
• small stilted mangrove (Rhizophora stylosa)
• spurred mangrove (Ceriops tagal (Australia))
• stilt-root mangrove (Rhizophora stylosa (Australia))
• tulip mangrove (Heritiera littoralis)
• white-flowered black mangrove (Lumnitzera racemosa)
• white mangrove (Laguncularia racemosa, Avicennia marina)
• yamstick mangrove (Scyphiphora hydrophylacea)

Translations

tropical tree or shrub that grows in shallow water

• Bikol Central: bakawan
• Bulgarian: мангрово дърво n (mangrovo dǎrvo)
• Burmese: လမု (my) (la.mu.)
• Catalan: mangle m
• Chinese:

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

• Dhivehi: ކަނޑޫ‎ (kanḍū)
• Finnish: mangrove (fi), mangrovekasvi
• French: palétuvier (fr) m
• German: Mangrovenbaum m
• Hiligaynon: bakhaw
• Icelandic: leiruviðarskógur
• Irish: mangróbh m
• Japanese: マングローブ (ja) (mangurōbu)
• Malay: bakau

• Maori: mānawa, paetai
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mangrove (no) m

  Nynorsk: mangrove m

• Persian: حرا‎ (fa) (harâ)
• Portuguese: mangue (pt) m
• Russian: ма́нгровое де́рево n (mángrovoje dérevo), мангр (ru) m (mangr)
• Spanish: mangle m
• Swedish: mangrove (sv) c, mangroveträd n
• Tagalog: bakawan
• Thai: โกงกาง (th) (goong-gaang)
• Welsh: mangrof m
• Xhosa: isikhangati class 7/8

habitat

• Burmese: လမုတော (la.mu.tau:)
• Chinese:

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

• Finnish: mangrovesuo, mangrovemetsä
• French: mangrove (fr) f
• German: Mangrove (de) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mangrove (no) m

  Nynorsk: mangrove m

• Portuguese: manguezal, mangue (pt)
• Spanish: manglar (es) m
• Swedish: mangrove (sv) c
• Thai: ป่าชายเลน (bpàa-chaai-leen), ป่าโกงกาง (bpàa-goong-gaang)

plant of the Rhizophoraceae family

• Finnish: mangrove (fi), mangrovepuukasvi (fi)
• Japanese: ヒルギ (hirugi)

• Swedish: rödmangroveväxt c

tree of the genus Rhizophora

• Bulgarian: ризофора f (rizofora)
• Finnish: mangrove (fi), mangrovepuu (fi)

See also

• mangle

Further reading

• mangrove on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• venogram

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English mangrove, from earlier mangrow by folk etymology influence of grove, from Portuguese mangue, from Spanish mangle (or directly from Spanish), from a Caribbean language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌmɑŋˈɣroː.və/
• Hyphenation: man‧gro‧ve
• Rhymes: -oːvə

Noun

mangrove m (plural mangroven or mangroves)

1. A mangrove tree.

   Synonyms: mangroveboom, wortelboom

2. A mangrove forest.

   Synonyms: mangrovebos, vloedbos

Derived terms

• mangroveboom
• mangrovebos

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑŋroʋe/, [ˈmɑŋro̞ʋe̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑŋroʋe
• Syllabification: mang‧ro‧ve

Noun

mangrove

1. mangrove (tropical tree or shrub of any taxon that grows on waterlogged brackish soils)

Declension

• Also mangroveiden is often used for genitive plural.

Inflection of mangrove (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
nominative		mangrove	mangrovet
genitive		mangroven	mangrovejen
partitive		mangrovea	mangroveja
illative		mangroveen	mangroveihin
		singular	plural
nominative		mangrove	mangrovet
accusative	nom.	mangrove	mangrovet
	gen.	mangroven
genitive		mangroven	mangrovejen mangroveinrare
partitive		mangrovea	mangroveja
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

Possessive forms of mangrove (type nalle)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	mangroveni	mangrovemme
2nd person	mangrovesi	mangrovenne
3rd person	mangrovensa

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French

Etymology

From earlier mangrore, borrowed from English mangrove.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɑ̃.ɡʁɔv/

Noun

mangrove f (plural mangroves)

1. A mangrove forest.

Further reading

• “mangrove” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Italian

Noun

mangrove f

1. plural of mangrova

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Norwegian Bokmål

Mangrove

Etymology

From English mangrove

Noun

mangrove m (definite singular mangroven, indefinite plural mangrover, definite plural mangrovene)

1. mangrove (tree or forest)

Derived terms

• mangroveskog

References

• “mangrove” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “mangrove” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English mangrove

Noun

mangrove m (definite singular mangroven, indefinite plural mangrovar, definite plural mangrovane)

1. mangrove (tree or forest)

Derived terms

• mangroveskog

References

• “mangrove” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.