Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1899, apparently a loan-translation of German Regenwald, coined by A.F.W. Schimper for his 1898 work "Pflanzengeographie."
Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of rainforest English)
WordNet
n. a forest with heavy annual rainfall [syn: rainforest]
Wikipedia
Rain Forest is a bronze fountain/sculpture by James FitzGerald located on the campus of Western Washington University. Commissioned in 1959 and unveiled in 1960, it was the first work in the Western Washington University Public Sculpture Collection. The sculpture represents the temperate rainforests of the nearby Olympic Peninsula.
Rain Forest is a 1966 album by Walter Wanderley.
Usage examples of "rain forest".
Briefly she told Bex how, toward the end, she had worked in Cameroon, as the loggers had worked their way out into the virgin rain forest, and the hunters had followed.
In the depths of the mutant rain forest where the water falls each afternoon in a light filtered to vermilion, a feline stone idol stands against the opaque foliage.
It was a veritable rain forest back there, with thick grass and vegetation.
I remember reading once how some Stone Age Indians from the Brazilian rain forest with no knowledge or expectation of a world beyond the jungle were taken to Sao Paulo or Rio, and when they saw what it contained-- the buildings, the cars, the passing airplanes--and how thoroughly at variance it was with their own simple lives, they wet themselves, lavishly and in unison.
Savi swooped the sonie lower, east of the peaks, and they flew a few thousand feet above rain forest and green savannahs, still moving so quickly that more peaks appeared like dots above the horizon and then grew into mountains in mere minutes.
There's a reason why the Haighlei call that kind of territory a `rain forest.
Now, she became aware of the intense humidity of the rain forest pressing down on her, making every breath she drew lie heavily in her lungs.
She wished they had remained in the jungle, hidden so deeply in the rain forest that no one would ever have found them.
The most intensive manhunt in Washington history centered today on the tangled rain forest and virtually untouched wilderness area of the Olympic National Park.
I don't suppose there was more than four or five hundred feet in it as I started across the first great shoulder that lifted in a hog's back out of the dark green of the rain forest.