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rain forest

NOUN
forest with heavy rainfall
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The programme includes meetings with cricketing legends in Antigua and Barbuda, where the West Indies team is based, and meeting conservationists responsible for Guyana's rain forest.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

The same area of seagrass can absorb 35 times the amount a tropical rain forest can.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

Old growth forests are certainly critically important keepers of habitats, but older forests, including rainforests like the Amazonian rain forest, are valuable primarily as carbon storage forests, not carbon sequestering forests.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 7, 2023

Officials from Para State, northern Brazil, inspect a deforested area in the Amazon rain forest during surveillance in the municipality of Pacaja, 620 km from the capital Belem, on September 22, 2021.

From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2023

On July 6, 1976, five hundred miles northwest of Mount Elgon, in southern Sudan, near the fingered edge of the central-African rain forest, a man who is known to Ebola hunters as Yu.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston


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