different between grassland vs rainforest

English

Etymology

From grass +? land. Compare Dutch grasland (“grassland”), Faroese graslendi (“grassland”), Icelandic graslendi (“grassland”). Compare also Old English græsmolde (“grassland”).

Noun

grassland (countable and uncountable, plural grasslands)

1. An area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation.

Hypernyms

• land

Translations

See also

• ing
• lea
• llano
• meadow
• outback
• pampa
• paramo
• prairie
• savanna
• steppe
• veld

References

• grassland on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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