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rain forest

NOUN
forest with heavy rainfall
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His photos of temperate rain forest in Wales reveal shapes, structures and colours that rival a coral reef.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2024

In the show, celebrities of all eras are joined together to live in the harsh conditions of the Australian rain forest.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2023

Every rain forest we bulldoze for cattle and every open pit lithium mine we carve out to power our Teslas is hardly different than a Cordyceps fungus turning its host into a zombie.

From Salon • Oct. 31, 2023

In the millennia before European colonizers invaded the Amazon rain forest, throngs of Indigenous people moved mountains of dirt to create some 10,000 yet-to-be-identified earthworks across the region.

From Scientific American • Oct. 5, 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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