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Rainforest in Daintree National Park, Australia
From rain + forest , a calque of German Regenwald .
rainforest (countable and uncountable , plural rainforests )
A forest in a climate with high annual rainfall and no dry season.
2002 , Chris C. Park, Tropical Rainforests , page 27 :Perhaps the most impressive expression of species diversity is the density of species found in a given area of rainforest .
2004 , Nigel E. Stork, “24: The Theory and Practice of Planning for Long-Term Conservation of Biodiversity of Wet Tropics Rainforests in Australia”, in Eldredge Bermingham, Christopher W. Dick, Craig Moritz, editors, Tropical Rainforests: Past, Present, and Future , page 508 :Tropical rainforests in Australia have suffered a fate similar in many ways to that of rainforests elsewhere in the world, but considerable progress in safeguarding the future of what remains has been made.
2014 , Nick Hunter, Rainforests , page 38 :Enjoy your visit to the rainforests , because the next time you go there things could be very different.
type of forest
Bulgarian: дъждовна гора f ( dǎždovna gora )
Catalan: selva pluvial f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 雨林 (zh) ( yǔlín )
Czech: deštný prales m , deštný les m
Danish: regnskov (da) c
Dutch: regenwoud (nl) n
Esperanto: pluvarbaro
Estonian: vihmamets
Faroese: regnskógur
Finnish: sademetsä (fi)
French: pluvisylve f , pluvisilve f , forêt pluviale f , forêt pluvieuse f , forêt tropicale f
Georgian: ჭარბტენიანი ტყე ( č̣arbṭeniani ṭq̇e ) , ტროპიკული ტყე ( ṭroṗiḳuli ṭq̇e )
German: Regenwald (de) m
Greek: τροπικό δάσος n ( tropikó dásos )
Hebrew: יער גשם (he)
Hindi: वर्षावन ( varṣāvan )
Hungarian: esőerdő (hu)
Icelandic: regnskógur (is) m
Irish: foraois bháistí f
Italian: foresta pluviale f
Japanese: 雨林 ( うりん, urin ) , 多雨林 ( たうりん, taurin )
Kannada: ಮಳೆಕಾಡು (kn) ( maḷekāḍu )
Latvian: lietus mežs
Lithuanian: drėgnasis miškas
Macedonian: дождовна шума f ( doždovna šuma )
Malay: hutan hujan (ms)
Maori: ngahere pārūrū ( in the tropics ) , ngāoreore
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: ширэнгэн ой ( širengen oj )
Navajo: hodíłchʼil níłtsánígíí
Northern Sami: arvevuovdi
Norwegian:
Bokmål: regnskog (no) m , regnskau (no) m
Nynorsk: regnskog m
Persian: جنگل بارانی (fa)
Pitcairn-Norfolk: stik
Polish: las deszczowy (pl) m
Portuguese: floresta tropical f , floresta húmida f , floresta ombrófila f , floresta pluvial f
Romanian: pădure tropicală f
Russian: дождево́й лес m ( doždevój les ) , се́льва (ru) f ( sélʹva )
Scottish Gaelic: coille-uisge f
Serbo-Croatian: pràšuma (sh) f
Slovak: dažďový les m
Slovene: deževni gozd m
Spanish: bosque tropical m , bosque hidrofítico m , pluviselva (es) f
Swedish: regnskog (sv) c
Thai: ป่าฝน ( bpàa-fǒn ) , ป่าดิบชื้น ( bpàa-dìp-chʉ́ʉn )
Turkish: yağmur ormanı (tr)
Ukrainian: дощовий ліс m ( doščovyj lis )
Vietnamese: rừng mưa
Welsh: fforest law f