rainforest

noun

Etymology: From rain + forest, a calque of German Regenwald.

1. A forest in a climate with high annual rainfall and no dry season.

   “Perhaps the most impressive expression of species diversity is the density of species found in a given area of rainforest.”

   “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.”