different between deserts vs rainforest

deserts

English

Pronunciation

  • (noun (that which is deserved), verb):
    • (General American) IPA(key): /d??z?ts/, /d??z?ts/
    • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d??z??ts/
    • Rhymes: -??(?)ts
    • Homophone: desserts
    • Hyphenation: de?serts
  • (noun (barren areas))
    • (General American) IPA(key): /?d?z?ts/
    • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?d?z?ts/
    • Hyphenation: des?erts

Noun

deserts

  1. plural of desert

Verb

deserts

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of desert

Anagrams

  • dessert, tressed

Catalan

Noun

deserts

  1. plural of desert

Latvian

Noun

deserts m (1st declension)

  1. dessert
  2. sweet (dish)

Declension

Synonyms

  • saldais ?diens

deserts From the web:

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rainforest

English

Alternative forms

  • rain forest

Etymology

From rain +? forest, a calque of German Regenwald.

Pronunciation

Noun

rainforest (countable and uncountable, plural rainforests)

  1. A forest in a climate with high annual rainfall and no dry season.
    • 2002, Chris C. Park, Tropical Rainforests, page 27,
      Perhaps the most impressive expression of species diversity is the density of species found in a given area of rainforest.
    • 2004, Nigel E. Stork, 24: The Theory and Practice of Planning for Long-Term Conservation of Biodiversity of Wet Tropics Rainforests in Australia, Eldredge Bermingham, Christopher W. Dick, Craig Moritz (editors), Tropical Rainforests: Past, Present, and Future, page 508
      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.
    • 2014, Nick Hunter, Rainforests, page 38,
      Enjoy your visit to the rainforests, because the next time you go there things could be very different.

Synonyms

  • jungle, tropical forest

Translations

Anagrams

  • Forsterian, rotiferans

rainforest From the web:

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  • what rainforest is in brazil
  • what rainforest is in south america
  • what rainforest do tigers live in
  • what rainforest is in costa rica
  • what rainforest animals eat grass
  • what rainforest do jaguars live in
  • what rainforest animals eat snakes
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