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Rainforest vs Tropical - What's the difference?

rainforest | tropical |

As nouns the difference between rainforest and tropical

is that rainforest is a forest in a climate with high annual rainfall and no dry season while tropical is a tropical plant.

As an adjective tropical is

of or north and 23 degrees south.

rainforest

Alternative forms

* rain forest

Noun

  • A forest in a climate with high annual rainfall and no dry season.
  • * 2002', Chris C. Park, ''Tropical '''Rainforests , page 27,
  • Perhaps the most impressive expression of species diversity is the density of species found in a given area of rainforest .
  • * 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 , page 508
  • 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.
  • * 2014', Nick Hunter, '''''Rainforests , page 38,
  • Enjoy your visit to the rainforests , because the next time you go there things could be very different.

    Synonyms

    * jungle, tropical forest

    tropical

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (abbreviation)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or north and 23 degrees south.
  • From or similar to a hot climate, e.g. tropical fruit, tropical weather.
  • (dated) Pertaining to, involving, or of the nature of a .
  • (Jeremy Taylor)
  • * South
  • The foundation of all parables is some analogy or similitude between the tropical or allusive part of the parable and the thing intended by it.

    Derived terms

    *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A tropical plant.