tropical rain forest

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   a rain forest in a tropical area

   Synonymsselva

   Broaderrain forest

Questions about tropical rain forest

What does tropical rain forest mean?

tropical rain forest means "a rain forest in a tropical area".

What is another word for tropical rain forest?

Close synonyms include selva. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tropical rain forest a common word?

tropical rain forest 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.