jungly

English

Etymology

jungle +‎ -y

Adjective

jungly (comparative junglier, superlative jungliest)

  1. Overgrown with jungle.
    • 1894, Robert H Elliot, Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore:
      […] it was arranged that I should make a circuit and get between the bear and a jungly ravine […]
    • 2000, Martin Bennett, Rosamund Fowler, Tales from West Africa:
      He was lying on a bamboo bed in the traditional doctor's hut at the jungliest edge of the village.
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