Look up: Rainforest

1. rainforest
   luxuriant forest, generally composed of tall, broad-leaved trees and usually found in wet tropical uplands and lowlands around the Equator.[2 related articles]
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2. Rainforest
   Lush forests growing in regions of high precipitation. Most well known are the tropical rainforests or jungles such as in the Amazon basin. Rainforests also grow along the northern Pacific coast of North America. These great northern and temperate rainforests covered much of coastal regions of south...
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3. rainforest
   Click images to enlargeDense forest usually found on or near the Equator where the climate is hot and wet. Moist air brought by the converging trade winds rises because of the heat and produces heavy rainfall. More than half the tropical rainforests are in Central and South America, primarily the lower Amazon and the coas...
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4. Rainforest
   A large forest that stays warm and wet year round with many different kinds of animals and plants. Also called a jungle.
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5. Rainforest
   `Rainforests` are forests characterized by high rainfall, with definitions based on a minimum normal annual rainfall of 1750-2000 mm (68-78 inches). The monsoon trough, alternatively known as the intertropical convergence zone, plays a significant role in creating the climatic cond...
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6. Rainforest
   (album) `Rainforest` (1989) is an album by the U.S. ambient musician Robert Rich. The inspiration for this album came when Rich traveled through the rainforests of the American Pacific Northwest. Seeing the lush beauty of that environment contrasted by the devastation caused by clear-c...
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7. Rainforest
   (novel) `Rainforest` is a 1987 novel by Jenny Diski about a young female English academic whose ambitions are to lead a sane and sensible life and to contribute to humankind`s understanding of the natural world but who eventually has a mental breakdown when faced with too many people s...
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