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 Taino, 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

• Catalan: mangle m
• Chinese:

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

• Finnish: mangrove (fi), mangrovekasvi
• French: palétuvier (fr) m
• German: Mangrovenbaum m
• Hiligaynon: bakhaw
• Icelandic: leiruviðarskógur
• Japanese: マングローブ (ja) (mangurōbu)

• Malay: bakau
• Maori: mānawa, paetai
• Persian: حرا‎ (fa) (harâ)
• Portuguese: mangue (pt) m
• Russian: ма́нгровое де́рево n (mángrovoje dérevo), мангр m (mangr)
• Spanish: mangle m
• Swedish: mangrove (sv) c, mangroveträd n
• Tagalog: bakawan

habitat

• Chinese:

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

• Finnish: mangrovesuo, mangrovemetsä
• French: mangrove (fr) f

• German: Mangrove (de) f
• Portuguese: manguezal, mangue (pt)
• Spanish: manglar (es) m
• Swedish: mangrove (sv) c

plant of the Rhizophoraceae family

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

• Swedish: rödmangroveväxt c

tree of the genus Rhizophora

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

See also

• mangle

Further reading

• mangrove on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• venogram

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑŋro̞ʋe̞/
• Hyphenation: man‧gro‧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

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French

Noun

mangrove f (plural mangroves)

1. A mangrove forest.

Further reading

• “mangrove” in le 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