different between forests vs rainforest

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: f?r??sts, IPA^(key): /?f???sts/
• (General American) enPR: fôr??sts, IPA^(key): /?f???sts/
• (NYC) enPR: f?r??sts, IPA^(key): /?f???sts/

Noun

forests

1. plural of forest

Verb

forests

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

Anagrams

• forsets, fosters

Old French

Noun

forests f pl

1. oblique/nominative plural of forest

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