jungle : Idioms & Phrases

• noun an area in a city with large modern buildings that is perceived as dangerous and unpleasant
  

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• (Zoöl.), the aswail or sloth bear.

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• noun small Asiatic wildcat
  Felis chaus.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the chaus.

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• noun male jungle fowl
  

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• (Zoöl.), the male of a jungle fowl.

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• noun severe form of malaria occurring in tropical regions
  

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• noun small Asiatic wild bird; believed to be ancestral to domestic fowl
  gallina.
  

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• . (Zoöl.) (a) Any wild species of the genus Gallus, of which several species inhabit India and the adjacent islands; as, the fork-tailed jungle fowl (G. varius) of Java, G. Stanleyi of Ceylon, and G. Bankiva of India. The latter, which resembles the domestic gamecock, is supposed to be one of the original species from which the domestic fowl was derived. (b) An Australian grallatorial bird (Megapodius tumulus) which is allied to the brush turkey, and, like the latter, lays its eggs in mounds of vegetable matter, where they are hatched by the heat produced by decomposition.

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• noun a structure of vertical and horizontal rods where children can climb and play
  

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• noun female jungle fowl
  

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• noun skin disorder induced by a tropical climate
  

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• noun a jungle fowl of southeastern Asia that is considered ancestral to the domestic fowl
  Gallus gallus.
  

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