jungle
part of speech
noun (a jungle, jungles)
meaning for a pupil
1) A thick, warm, wet forest in a hot country, full of trees, plants and animals. tree →
2) A place that is wild, messy or hard to get through (the garden is a jungle). tree →
3) A place where people compete hard and roughly (it's a jungle out there). tree →
sense in the lessons
In geography and science: jungles and rainforests grow near the equator; tigers, monkeys and parrots live there. In stories and films: explorers cut through the jungle. Phrases: the jungle, jungle gym (playground climbing frame, US), concrete jungle (a big city).
examples
- Monkeys swing through the trees of the jungle. tree →
- Tigers live in the jungles of India. tree →
- Our back garden is a jungle after the summer. tree →
- We played on the jungle gym at break (US). tree →
- The city is a concrete jungle. tree →
- The explorers got lost in the jungle. tree →
- It rains almost every day in the jungle. tree →
- I had never seen the jungle. tree →
note
Countable noun. "Jungle" and "rainforest" overlap; scientists usually say "rainforest", and "jungle" is the thick, tangled part. Myth: lions are called "king of the jungle" but they live in grasslands (savannah), not jungles.
In the corpora
- Jungle and survival shows have doctors, crews and safety rules behind the camera, even when the people look all alone.
- Bagheera in The Jungle Book is a black leopard.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «jungle» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.