cloud forest

American  

noun

1. a tropical high-altitude forest at 3,000 to 8,000 feet (1,000 to 2,500 meters) above sea level, almost constantly covered by cloud.

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cloud forest Scientific  

1. A high-elevation tropical forest that receives much of its moisture from direct contact with clouds rather than from rain.

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Etymology

Origin of cloud forest

First recorded in 1920–25

Example Sentences

But just an hour outside Quito lies the Andean Chocó, a vast cloud forest teeming with exotic birds, pumas, ocelots and giant anteaters—and you no longer need to be an intrepid bushwhacker to enjoy it.

From The Wall Street Journal

So the cloud forest is sort of reticulating and branching and tributary making, shall we say, and then the circulatory qualities of Chennai, where I really had to come to the realization that water is continually metamorphosing itself In Chennai, in the bodies that it inhabits, human and landscape, and then, and then just this turbulence and relentless, powerful flow, undammed flow of the Mutehekau Shipu.

From Salon

And then you went up to the cloud forest?

From Salon

It would be a couple few years later that I met Dr. Roo Vandergrift, who was doing his PhD work in the cloud forest, a place called Reserva los Cedros.

From Salon

Much like in the show, where ruthless, polluting Reutical Pharmaceutical is the corporate antagonist, unscrupulous companies are the problem: in this case, the cloud forest is under threat by Canadian and Ecuadorian mining companies as well as by deforestation and climate change.

From Salon