Forest vs. Jungle — What's the Difference?

A forest is an area of land dominated by trees. Hundreds of definitions of forest are used throughout the world, incorporating factors such as tree density, tree height, land use, legal standing and ecological function.

A jungle is land covered with dense forest and tangled vegetation, usually in tropical climates. Application of the term has varied greatly during the past recent centuries.

A large area covered chiefly with trees and undergrowth

Land covered with a dense growth of tropical vegetation.

A large number or dense mass of vertical or tangled objects

A dense thicket or growth.

Cover (land) with forest; plant with trees

A dense, confused mass; a jumble.

A growth of trees and other plants covering a large area.

Something made up of many confused elements; a bewildering complex or maze

A large number of objects bearing a similarity to such a growth, especially a dense collection of tall objects

A place or milieu characterized by intense, often ruthless competition or struggle for survival

A defined area of land formerly set aside in England as a royal hunting ground.

(Slang) A place where hoboes camp.

To plant trees on or cover with trees.

A large, undeveloped, humid forest, especially in a tropical region, that is home to many wild plants and animals; a tropical rainforest.

A dense uncultivated tract of trees and undergrowth, larger than woods.

(South Asia) Any uncultivated tract of forest or scrub habitat.

Any dense collection or amount.

(colloquial) A place where people behave ruthlessly, unconstrained by law or morality.

(historical) A defined area of land set aside in England as royal hunting ground or for other privileged use; all such areas.

(figurative) A tangled mess.

(graph theory) A graph with no cycles; i.e., a graph made up of trees.

(slang) An area where hobos camp together.

A group of domains that are managed as a unit.

(UK) A migrant camp.

The colour forest green.

A style of electronic dance music and precursor of drum and bass.

(transitive) To cover an area with trees.

A desert region.

An extensive wood; a large tract of land covered with trees; in the United States, a wood of native growth, or a tract of woodland which has never been cultivated.

Dense rough.

A large extent or precinct of country, generally waste and woody, belonging to the sovereign, set apart for the keeping of game for his use, not inclosed, but distinguished by certain limits, and protected by certain laws, courts, and officers of its own.

A hairy vulva.

Of or pertaining to a forest; sylvan.

(Of musical beat, rhythm, etc.) resembling the fast-paced drumming of traditional peoples of the jungle.

To cover with trees or wood.

A dense growth of brushwood, grasses, reeds, vines, etc.; an almost impenetrable thicket of trees, canes, and reedy vegetation, as in India, Africa, Australia, and Brazil.

The trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area

A place of danger or ruthless competition for survival.

Land that is covered with trees and shrubs

Anything which causes confusion or difficulty due to intricacy; as, a jungle of environmental regulations.

Establish a forest on previously unforested land;

An impenetrable equatorial forest

A location marked by an intense competition and struggle for survival

A place where hoboes camp