Jungle

Jungle is a slang term for a very dense forest, so often is tropical rain forest meant.

Demarcation

In a narrower sense, only the jungle Asian countries is called a jungle. Scientifically accurate (eg in geography ) is the term only to the dense vegetation forests of the northern monsoon zone use. Impenetrable vegetation (see etymology ) is found otherwise much more in the original mixed forests of central Europe with its distinct shrub layer, but hardly in the rather sparse tropical primary forest. The wet and dry forests in the tropical savanna zone, the phases exhibit during the rainy season extremely dense undergrowth and during the dry season ausdürren are colloquially referred to as bush; a term that is used in adventure stories falsely for rainforest and jungle.

Etymology

Originally designated jangal in Hindi " raw land, wasteland, wilderness, forest ", from the Sanskrit word Jangala for " Badlands, Desert ," Jangala the homonymous adjective for " uncultivated, barren or slightly fertile desolate, arid, sparsely covered with trees ". Living in India British ran it from the English word jungle and called thus predominantly subtropical monsoon forest and the bamboo -rich wetlands in Hindustan and in the Ganges delta.

Word usage

In German it is called the jungle. Previously, grammatically the or the right. With the phrase law of the jungle, are referred to with reference to the eating and being eaten, conditions in which there is a " law of the jungle " somewhat in the manner of the law of the jungle.

Reception

• The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair 's novel about bad conditions in the meat industry in Chicago around 1900. Again ( the ratios for the ordinary worker namely ), but also for the struggle of all against all ( is the word The jungle as a metaphor for impenetrable here of management to the workforce).
• Tarzan
• The Jungle Book