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JUNGLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An impenetrable equatorial forest
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("jungle" is a kind of...):
forest; wood; woods (the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area)
Derivation:
jungly (overgrown with tropical vegetation)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A place where hoboes camp
Synonyms:
hobo camp; jungle
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("jungle" is a kind of...):
camp (a group of people living together in a camp)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A location marked by an intense competition and struggle for survival
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("jungle" is a kind of...):
location (a point or extent in space)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "jungle"):
concrete jungle (an area in a city with large modern buildings that is perceived as dangerous and unpleasant)
Context examples:
I knew not what wild beast we were about to hunt down in the dark jungle of criminal London, but I was well assured, from the bearing of this master huntsman, that the adventure was a most grave one—while the sardonic smile which occasionally broke through his ascetic gloom boded little good for the object of our quest.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In the jungle I crept forward, stopping with a beating heart whenever I heard, as I often did, the crash of breaking branches as some wild beast went past.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Researchers using a high-tech aerial mapping scanner have discovered the ruins of tens of thousands of ancient Mayan structures that have been hidden and preserved for centuries under northern Guatemala's thick jungle.
(Hidden Mayan Civilization Revealed in Guatemala Jungle, VOA)
It is remarkable only for the fact that amid a perfect jungle of possibilities we, with our worthy collaborator, the inspector, have kept our close hold on the essentials and so been guided along the crooked and winding path.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Thus, he unified the universe and held it up and looked at it, or wandered through its byways and alleys and jungles, not as a terrified traveller in the thick of mysteries seeking an unknown goal, but observing and charting and becoming familiar with all there was to know.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
His body was all matted with black hair, out of which jungle we picked the wandering tick before it had bitten him.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Looking upwards, we could see no sign of movement above us amidst the green jungle which topped the cliff.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Taking courage, therefore, I slipped rapidly across it, and among the jungle on the farther side I picked up once again the brook which was my guide.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In the jungle which we traversed were numerous hard-trodden paths made by the wild beasts, and in the more marshy places we saw a profusion of strange footmarks, including many of the iguanodon.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Some of them who had disappeared into the jungle came back presently driving a young iguanodon before them.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
