rainforest
noun
rain·for·est
ˈrān-ˌfȯr-əst 
-ˌfär-
variants
or less commonly rain forest
plural rainforests also rain forests
1
: a tropical woodland with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches (254 centimeters) and marked by lofty broad-leaved evergreen trees forming a continuous canopy
called also tropical rainforest
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Indigenous Reserves and the Future of the Amazon Swathes of the Amazon rainforest are set aside for Indigenous peoples to manage.
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JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
This nourishes phytoplankton, which generates about half of the world’s oxygen and absorbs substantial amounts of CO2, equivalent to the capacity of four Amazon rainforests.
—Jared Formanek, CNN, 14 June 2024
And the cocoa crop is hardly in great shape; climate change is decreasing production, causing prices to rise; farmers in West Africa have responded by clear-cutting rainforests to plant more cocoa plants.
—Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 23 May 2024
As researchers and explorers dive deeper and deeper into the rainforest, collections and records of creatures unknown continue to grow.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 16 May 2024
In southern Brazil, the now-lush rainforest environment once was a vast desert.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 13 June 2024
Birds may get toxic feathers from eating beetles Songbirds in the pristine rainforests of New Guinea, including the regent whistler and rufous-naped bellbird, have potent neurotoxins in their feathers like those found among poison dart frogs.
—Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 June 2024
Many migrants interviewed had flown from Africa, Asia or Europe to South America and trekked north through the Darién Gap, a 60-mile stretch of dense rainforest between Colombia and Panama.
—Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2024
Light floods in from skylights like a rainforest canopy, and there is no better setting for an energizing breakfast.
—Stacey Wreathall and Dafydd Gwyon, Travel + Leisure, 15 May 2024
JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
This nourishes phytoplankton, which generates about half of the world’s oxygen and absorbs substantial amounts of CO2, equivalent to the capacity of four Amazon rainforests.
—Jared Formanek, CNN, 14 June 2024
And the cocoa crop is hardly in great shape; climate change is decreasing production, causing prices to rise; farmers in West Africa have responded by clear-cutting rainforests to plant more cocoa plants.
—Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 23 May 2024
As researchers and explorers dive deeper and deeper into the rainforest, collections and records of creatures unknown continue to grow.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 16 May 2024
In southern Brazil, the now-lush rainforest environment once was a vast desert.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 13 June 2024
Birds may get toxic feathers from eating beetles Songbirds in the pristine rainforests of New Guinea, including the regent whistler and rufous-naped bellbird, have potent neurotoxins in their feathers like those found among poison dart frogs.
—Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 June 2024
Many migrants interviewed had flown from Africa, Asia or Europe to South America and trekked north through the Darién Gap, a 60-mile stretch of dense rainforest between Colombia and Panama.
—Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2024
Light floods in from skylights like a rainforest canopy, and there is no better setting for an energizing breakfast.
—Stacey Wreathall and Dafydd Gwyon, Travel + Leisure, 15 May 2024
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