mangrove

suomi-englanti sanakirja

mangrove englannista suomeksi

(senseid) Any of various tropical and subtropical evergreen shrubs or trees chiefly of the (taxfmt) family that have roots and grow in clumps in brackish intertidal coastal areas; any of various trees of the genus (taxfmt), especially the (vern) ((taxlink)). (defdate)

(sense) (synonyms)

(RQ:Darwin et al Voyages)
(RQ:Conrad Heart of Darkness) in and out of rivers, streams of death in life, whose banks were rotting into mud, whose waters, thickened into slime, invaded the contorted mangroves, that seemed to writhe at us in the extremity of an impotent despair.
(quote-journal)
(RQ:Guardian) The Barra de Santiago is bordered on one side by mangroves with the ocean on the other; the project will be the first to build houses on the mangrove side.
A forest of such shrubs or trees.

(synonyms)

''Preceded by a descriptive word'': any of various shrubs or trees of genera other than (taxfmt) which resemble plants of this genus in appearance and habitat.
(synonym of) (“a tropical and subtropical coastal intertidal swampland ecosystem characterized by mangroves ''((senseno))'' or similar shrubs and trees”).
(quote-web)
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a (l) tree

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