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Jungle

A dense growth of brushwood, grasses, reeds, vines, etc.; an almost impenetrable thicket of trees, canes, and reedy vegetation, as in India, Africa, Australia, and Brazil.

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Camp 76% connected

The ground or spot on which tents, huts, etc., are erected for shelter, as for an army or for lumbermen, etc.

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Forest 76% connected

An extensive wood; a large tract of land covered with trees; in the United States, a wood of native growth, or a tract of woodland which has never be…

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Location 76% connected

The act or process of locating.

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Wood 76% connected

Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic.

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Jungly 74% connected

Consisting of jungles; abounding with jungles; of the nature of a jungle.

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Jungly 74% connected

Consisting of jungles; abounding with jungles; of the nature of a jungle.

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Adamant noun · 78% connection

A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness; but in…

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Agrostis noun · 78% connection

A genus of grasses, including species called in common language bent grass. Some of them, as redtop (Agrostis vulgaris), are valuable…

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Arundiferous adjective · 78% connection

Producing reeds or canes.

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Arundineous adjective · 78% connection

Abounding with reeds; reedy.

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Avena noun · 78% connection

A genus of grasses, including the common oat (Avena sativa); the oat grasses.

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Barren adjective · 78% connection

Not producing vegetation, or useful vegetation; /rile.

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Bavin noun · 78% connection

A fagot of brushwood, or other light combustible matter, for kindling fires; refuse of brushwood.

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Boscage noun · 78% connection

A growth of trees or shrubs; underwood; a thicket; thick foliage; a wooded landscape.

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Bosquet noun · 78% connection

A grove; a thicket; shrubbery; an inclosure formed by branches of trees, regularly or irregularly disposed.

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Brake noun · 78% connection

A thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles, with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes.

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Brush noun · 78% connection

A thicket of shrubs or small trees; the shrubs and small trees in a wood; underbrush.

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Brushwood noun · 78% connection

Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs.

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Bush noun · 78% connection

A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.

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Calamiferous adjective · 78% connection

Producing reeds; reedy.

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Cane noun · 78% connection

Stems of other plants are sometimes called canes; as, the canes of a raspberry.

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Canebrake noun · 78% connection

A thicket of canes.

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Cany adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to cane or canes; abounding with canes.

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Chaparral noun · 78% connection

An almost impenetrable thicket or succession of thickets of thorny shrubs and brambles.

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