jungle rot

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   skin disorder induced by a tropical climate

   Broaderskin disease

Questions about jungle rot

What does jungle rot mean?

jungle rot means "skin disorder induced by a tropical climate".

Is jungle rot a common word?

jungle rot is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.