RAINFOREST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rainforest mean? 

• RAINFOREST (noun)
  The noun RAINFOREST has 1 sense:

1. a forest with heavy annual rainfall

  Familiarity information: RAINFOREST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAINFOREST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A forest with heavy annual rainfall

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

rain forest; rainforest

Hypernyms ("rainforest" 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 "rainforest"):

temperate rain forest (a rain forest in a temperate area)

selva; tropical rain forest (a rain forest in a tropical area)

 Context examples 

In turn, the rainforest has a strong influence on climate regulation worldwide, and aerosol effects observed in this region could also trigger climate shifts globally.

(Tiny pollutants intensify storms in the Amazon, SciDev.Net)

Until now, little attention has been paid to African rainforests, where ground measurements are even sparser than in the Amazon and where droughts are less severe but last longer.

(NASA finds drought may take toll on Congo rainforest, NASA)

The inventory of plant species was carried out by scientists from the eight countries covered by the Amazon rainforest, along with colleagues from the United States and Europe.

(Inventory revises down Amazon tree species list, SciDev.Net)

Since 2004, deforestation in the Amazon rainforest has been reduced by more than 70%, after the second-highest peak ever since it has been monitored (27,772 km²).

(Amazon lost 7,989 km² of forest in 12 months, Agência Brasil)

A new study gives the first observational evidence that the southern Amazon rainforest triggers its own rainy season using water vapor from plant leaves.

(New Study Shows the Amazon Makes Its Own Rainy Season, NASA)

This giant could store as much carbon as an entire hectare of rainforest elsewhere in the Amazon.

(Expedition finds tallest tree in the Amazon, University of Cambridge)

In some cases, such as in the Amazon rainforest, that water vapor can jumpstart precipitation.

(How trees affect the weather, National Science Foundation)

A network of sensors with microphones and cameras will be created under the Amazon rainforest canopy to collect data on how animals there behave, on an ongoing basis.

(Amazon jungle animals to be monitored by sensors, Agência Brasil)

Artisan juice made with açaí, the fruit of a palm that grows in the rainforests of northern Brazil, could be a major source of infection with Trypanosoma cruzi, the parasite that causes Chagas disease.

(Açaí fruit can transmit Chagas disease, SciDev.Net)

Palm oil is an important commodity, but it raises concerns over the destruction of tropical rainforests that are replaced by its monocultures, says Kevin Felix Arno Darras, study author and postdoctoral researcher at Germany's University of Göttingen.

(Greener palm oil possible without sacrificing profit, SciDev.Net)