jungle
noun
[ ˈdʒʌŋɡ(ə)l ]
• an area of land overgrown with dense forest and tangled vegetation, typically in the tropics.
• "we set off into the jungle"
Similar:
tropical forest,
(tropical) rainforest,
wilderness,
wilds,
the bush,
• a style of dance music incorporating elements of ragga, hip-hop, and hard core and consisting of very fast electronic drum tracks and slower synthesized bass lines, originating in Britain in the early 1990s.
Origin:
late 18th century: via Hindi from Sanskrit jāṅgala ‘rough and arid (terrain)’.
