jungly

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Auckland, a city of 1.7 million people, sprawls across dozens of volcanoes and three harbors, with many people living close to beaches or on the edge of its jungly native wilderness.

From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2023

When I go “around the world” at River Caves, drifting through vintage footage of jungly verdure and hieroglyph-carved columns, stalagmites and stalactites pincushioning manmade vistas, I translate myself into that state of feeling.

From Slate • Nov. 26, 2018

Yours truly, Charlie D., still has the landscape architect’s plans from when Johanna and I were thinking of replacing these palms with something less jungly and prone to pests.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 11, 2013

In 2010 visitors to Metropolitan Museum’s roof could climb a jungly maze of bamboo stalks.

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2012

She ducked under the tangled honeysuckle toward the garden path, using her trowel like a machete to hack through some overgrown vines that crowded her jungly little porch.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver