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RAIN FOREST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A forest with heavy annual rainfall
Synonyms:
rain forest; rainforest
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("rain forest" is a kind of...):
forest; wood; woods (the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rain forest"):
temperate rain forest (a rain forest in a temperate area)
selva; tropical rain forest (a rain forest in a tropical area)
