different between rainforest vs wetland

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

English

Etymology

wet +? land

Noun

wetland (plural wetlands)

1. (usually in the plural) Land that is covered mostly with water, with occasional marshy and soggy areas.

Synonyms

• waterland

Hyponyms

• bog
• fen
• marsh
• mire
• swamp
• See also Thesaurus:wetland

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