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rain forest

rain forest is the alternative form of rainforest.

Meaning of rainforest

Noun

rainforest (countable and uncountable, plural rainforests)

  1. A forest in a climate with high annual rainfall and no dry season.
    • Perhaps the most impressive expression of species diversity is the density of species found in a given area of rainforest.2002, Chris C. Park, Tropical Rainforests, page 27
    Synonyms:
    jungle, tropical forest

Forms of rain forest

pluralrain forests

Questions about rain forest

What is rain forest the alternative form of?
Rain forest is the alternative form of rainforest.

Words near rain forest in the dictionary

  1. rain dogs and cats
  2. rain down
  3. rain fire and brimstone
  4. rain follows the plough
  5. rain follows the plow
  6. rain forest
  7. rain forests
  8. rain frog
  9. rain frogs
  10. rain gage
  11. rain gages

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rain forest (page history and authors); rainforest (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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