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Woodland vs Rainforest - What's the difference?

woodland | rainforest |

As nouns the difference between woodland and rainforest

is that woodland is land covered with woody vegetation while rainforest is a forest in a climate with high annual rainfall and no dry season.

As an adjective woodland

is of or pertaining to a creature or object growing, living, or existing in a woodland.

woodland

English

(wikipedia woodland)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Land covered with woody vegetation.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, / Here earth and water seem to strive again.
  • * Bancroft
    • Woodlands and cultivated fields are harmoniously blended.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
    • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2 citation , passage=Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands .}}

    Synonyms

    * timberland * forest

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to a creature or object growing, living, or existing in a woodland.
    • The woodland creatures ran from the fire.
  • * 1837 , “Picus''”, in Charles Frederick Partington (editor), ''The British Cyclopædia of Natural History , Volume 3, W. S. Orr & Co., page 446:
    • This species [ is a very little larger than the red-headed one; and it is more woodland in its manners; seldom appearing in orchards or near houses, but keeping to the tall trees in the close forests.
  • * 1839 , , The Natural History of the Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, Part II: Incessories'', part of ''The Naturalist's Library , W.H. Lizars, page 125–6:
    • The genera Philomela'' and ''Curruca , as we previously observed, are very closely allied to each other, both are woodland in their habits, and both possess great melody of song.
  • * 1890 July, , “My Islands”, in Longman's Magazine , Volume 16, Number 93, page 341:
    • It was a couple of hundred years or so more before I saw a third bullfinch — which didn't surprise me, for bullfinches are very woodland birds, and non-migratory into the bargain — so that they didn’t often get blown seaward over the broad Atlantic.
  • * 1894 , R. Bowdler Sharpe, A Hand-Book to the Birds of Great Britain , Volume I, W. H. Allen & Co., Limited, page 91:
    • As its name implies, this species [ is a more woodland bird than the other British Larks, and in many of its ways of life it resembles the Tree Pipit, frequenting the neighborhood of woods and plantations, but always affecting trees.
  • (obsolete) Having the character of a .
  • * {{quote-news, year=1827, author="Amateur", title=Northamptonshire, Huntingdonshire, and Bedfordshire Hunting, work=Sporting Magazine, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=yr4CAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA64, page=64
    • , passage=It is a very woodland country, with plenty of grass, but it is too large for four days a-week, and the sport is generally rather indifferent.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1835, author=, title=Nimrod's Hunting Tours, page=109, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=p-wIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA109
    • , passage=
  • * {{quote-book, year=1871, author=George Gill, title=Fourth Reader citation
    • , passage=Shortly after leaving Swindon the main line enters Wiltshire, and runs through an extremely woodland district to Chippenham

    Anagrams

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    rainforest

    English

    (wikipedia 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