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jungly

[juhng-glee] / ˈdʒʌŋ gli /
ADJECTIVE
overgrown
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STRONGEST




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Auckland, a city of 1.7 million people, sprawls across dozens of volcanoes and three harbors, with many people living close to beaches or on the edge of its jungly native wilderness.

From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2023

When I go “around the world” at River Caves, drifting through vintage footage of jungly verdure and hieroglyph-carved columns, stalagmites and stalactites pincushioning manmade vistas, I translate myself into that state of feeling.

From Slate • Nov. 26, 2018

Many scrambled down the jungly slopes toward the lake.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 27, 2018

The yard, though small, around 600 square feet, is beautiful, green and cool and jungly, densely planted with lacy native ferns and heavy-headed crimson heliconia and fragrant with white flowers: gardenia, plumeria, ginger, night-blooming jasmine.

From New York Times • May 17, 2017

She was standing bare-legged in the jungly weeds that grew up between our houses.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides




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