Rainforest vs Tropical - What's the difference?
rainforest | tropical |
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 ,
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 .
* South
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
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 foresttropical
English
Alternative forms
* (abbreviation)Adjective
(en adjective)- (Jeremy Taylor)
- 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.