tropical rainforest

American  

[trahp-ik-uhl rayn-fawr-ist] / ˈtrɑp ɪk əl ˈreɪnˌfɔr ɪst /

noun

• tropical rainforests
  plural

1. Geography. dense, biodiverse forest in tropical latitudes where there is a high level of rainfall, such as in the Amazon River basin.

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• subtropical rainforest
  noun

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• tropical rainforests
  plural

Example Sentences

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tropical rainforest

Dr. Alvin Helden discovered the new species while conducting fieldwork in the tropical rainforest of Uganda.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 11, 2026

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva had brushed off concerns about the location and highlighted the need to put the world's largest tropical rainforest at the center of the talks.

From Barron's ● Nov. 18, 2025

But seagrass does it especially fast — at a rate 35 times that of tropical rainforest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2025

And it offered a stark split-screen on Sunday to a historic visit President Joe Biden, who became the first sitting US president to go to the Amazon, the world's largest tropical rainforest.

From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2024

Especially on the northern slopes, tropical rainforest is well developed; this is replaced at about 1200 meters by cloud forest.

From A Distributional Study of the Amphibians of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico by William E. Duellman