tropical rainforest
Americannoun
plural
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Environmentalists have raised alarm about drilling for oil off the coast of the world's largest tropical rainforest, a biodiverse area that is home to several Indigenous communities.
From Barron's • Oct. 20, 2025
The planning permission for the project has now been submitted, and some of the plants that make up the indoor tropical rainforest have started to be relocated.
From BBC • Jul. 15, 2025
But seagrass does it especially fast — at a rate 35 times that of tropical rainforest.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2025
In Damaran Baru, which borders one of the richest expanses of tropical rainforest in Southeast Asia, many villagers rely on the forest for their livelihoods.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 3, 2024
The most extensive type of vegetation on the Gulf Coastal Plain is a tall evergreen forest resembling tropical rainforest.
From A Distributional Study of the Amphibians of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico by Duellman, William E.
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