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tropical rainforest

n. A forest with high rate of precipitation and high humidity, usually located near the equator.

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Tropical rainforest

Tropical rainforests occur in areas of tropical rainforest climate in which there is no dry season – all months have an average precipitation value of at least 60 mm – and may also be referred to as lowland equatorial evergreen rainforest. They rarely extend more than 10 degrees north or south of the equator are a sub-set of the tropical forest biome type that occurs roughly within the 28 degree latitudes (in the equatorial zone between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn). Within the World Wildlife Fund's biome classification, tropical rainforests are a type of tropical moist broadleaf forest (or tropical wet forest) that also includes tropical seasonal forests.

Usage examples of "tropical rainforest".

This manuscript lists every plant and animal in the tropical rainforest with medically active properties, along with prescriptions on how to extract the active ingredients, dosages, side effects.

Neither was at all like the tropical rainforest Morgan had described.

Bushes and trees speckled the grasses, building swiftly to a dense tropical rainforest that formed an unbroken skirt around the eastern base of the volcano.

It parallels the rangethe Solarios Mountains, as they're called through thereand will get us upriver to the limits of navigation at Zadar Station, which is a good 140 kilometers up and in a tropical rainforest.

As I write, Asian timber barons are trying to buy and cut the forests of Suriname and Guyana, increasing the statistics of 100 acres of world-wide tropical rainforest vanishing every minute.

The empty warehouse became a tropical rainforest with a snap, with no blur into apparent solidity.

The lobby was the size of an aircraft hangar, complete with a tropical rainforest and waterfall.

From this new perspective, it was easy to discern that the other hotel sections were orbiting the tropical rainforest.

The tree trunks were gray and ghostly in the ground fog that was rising, and the air smelled more like a tropical rainforest than dry-as-dust Texas.

It was in the middle of an area whose colour indicated it as 'tropical rainforest.