jungle
/ˈd͡ʒʌŋ.ɡ(ə)l/ noun B1- A large, lush, undeveloped, humid forest, especially in a tropical region, thick with vegetation and wildlife; a tropical rainforest.
- Any uncultivated tract of forest or scrub habitat.
- A place where people behave ruthlessly, unconstrained by law or morality. · It’s a jungle out there.
- A tangled mess.
- An area where hobos camp together.
- A style of electronic dance music and precursor of drum and bass.
- Dense rough.
- A dense mass of pubic hair.
Plural jungles
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“He has no right!” Father Wolf began angrily--“By the Law of the Jungle he has no right to change his quarters without due warning.
They will scour the jungle for him when he is far away, and we and our children must run when the grass is set alight.
Father Wolf listened, and below in the valley that ran down to a little river he heard the dry, angry, snarly, singsong whine of a tiger who has caught nothing and does not care if all the jungle knows it.
The Law of the Jungle, which never orders anything without a reason, forbids every beast to eat Man except when he is killing to show his children how to kill, and then he must hunt outside the hunting grounds of his pack or tribe.
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