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.

Noun

(wikipedia vegetation)

(uncountable) Plants, taken collectively.

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There were large amounts of vegetation in the forest.

(pathology, countable) An abnormal verrucous or fibrinous growth

The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.