Rainforest vs Lush - What's the difference?
rainforest | lush |
A forest in a climate with high annual rainfall and no dry season.
* 2002', Chris C. Park, ''Tropical '''Rainforests ,
* 2004', Nigel E. Stork, ''24: The Theory and Practice of Planning for Long-Term Conservation of Biodiversity of Wet Tropics '''Rainforests in Australia'', Eldredge Bermingham, Christopher W. Dick, Craig Moritz (editors), ''Tropical Rainforests: Past, Present, and Future ,
* 2014', Nick Hunter, '''''Rainforests ,
(obsolete) Lax; slack; limp; flexible.
(dialectal) Mellow; soft; (of ground or soil) easily turned.
(of vegetation) Dense, teeming with life.
* 2006 , Stefani Jackenthal, New York Times
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(slang, of food) Luxuriant, delicious.
(British, slang) Beautiful, sexy.
(British, Canada, slang) Amazing, cool, fantastic, wicked.
(pejorative) Drunkard, sot, alcoholic.
Intoxicating liquor.
To drink liquor to excess.
To drink (liquor) to excess.
As a noun rainforest
is a forest in a climate with high annual rainfall and no dry season.As a proper noun lush is
.rainforest
English
(wikipedia rainforest)Alternative forms
* rain forestNoun
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- Perhaps the most impressive expression of species diversity is the density of species found in a given area of rainforest .
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- Tropical rainforests' in Australia have suffered a fate similar in many ways to that of ' rainforests elsewhere in the world, but considerable progress in safeguarding the future of what remains has been made.
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- Enjoy your visit to the rainforests , because the next time you go there things could be very different.
Synonyms
* jungle, tropical forestlush
English
(wikipedia lush)Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Related to (m). More at (l), (l).Adjective
(er)- Some of the world’s best rain forest and volcanic hiking can be found within the lush canopied Caribbean trail systems. Chock-full of waterfalls and hot springs, bright-colored birds and howling monkeys, flora-lined trails cut through thick, fragrant forests and up cloud-covered mountains.
citation, passage=European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.}}
- That meal was lush ! We have to go that restaurant again sometime!
- Boys with long hair are lush !
- Your voice is lush , Lucy! I could listen to it all day!
