cloud forest
noun
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.
cloud forests
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pluralof cloud forest.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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This denizen of the cloud forests shares pedigree with a fabled deity: Quetzalcoatl, the “Feathered Serpent.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2025
And between that, it does start up in the cloud forests and then end up back more or less at the sea, at the Gulf of St Lawrence.
From Salon ● May 28, 2025
A group of scientists led by researchers of Khamai Foundation discovered five dazzling new species of eyelash vipers in the jungles and cloud forests of Colombia and Ecuador.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 12, 2024
These are not the clouds you look for in the damp, verdant cloud forests of Monteverde, Costa Rica.
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2017
Sefia and Archer had reached the cloud forests of the Kambali Mountains, the last range before the land sloped sharply toward the north coast of Oxscini.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
