mangrove
IPA: mˈængroʊv
noun
- Any of various tropical evergreen trees or shrubs that grow in intertidal coastal brackish waters.
- A habitat with such plants; mangrove forest; mangrove swamp; mangal.
- Any of various plants of the Rhizophoraceae family.
- Any of various trees of the genus Rhizophora.
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Examples of "mangrove" in Sentences
- The name refers to the mangrove wood found there.
- This includes the mangrove and the planted forests.
- The mangrove is the predominant form of vegetation.
- It borders the largest mangrove forest in the world.
- Part of the perimeter of the island is covered with mangroves.
- The Sundarbans delta is the largest mangrove forest in the world.
- This is an overview of the mangrove forest from the viewing tower.
- The river's delta contains the largest mangrove forest in the world.
- The Sundarbans delta is home to the largest mangrove forest in the world.
- The vegetation of the wetland ecosystem is dominated by species of mangroves.
- With its legs buried underwater, the mangrove is a case study in evolutionary biology.
- They cut it in thin strips and hung it over the fire of the black mangrove, which is one of the smokiest woods on earth.
- If you were a VC with a D-40 rocket grenade launcher, you'd hear the humming of the Swift boats and you'd go and hide in mangrove thickets, and put the rocket launcher on your shoulder, and kaboom!
- In effect, few species can be considered exclusive inhabitants of mangroves, although many are most commonly found associated with mangroves, and it is only in this sense that they can be called mangrove fauna.
- There are no walks; and if you go one way, you sink knee-deep in mangrove swamps; another you are covered with sand-flies; and a third is crawling up a steep mountain by a mule-path to get a glimpse of the sea beyond the lagoons which surround
- They say illegal fishing in mangrove forests and habitat destruction in the states of Orissa and West Bengal, in eastern India, has led to a steep fall in crocodile numbers, from several thousand a century ago to less than 100 in the early 1970s.
- Atlantic, I could not help recalling the mangrove swamps and lagoons of the tropic island in which my childhood had been passed, wondering the while, too, whether the _Josephine_ would not be reported as lost through the protraction of her voyage -- for she was expected to reach
- It has been suggested that the viviparity of the mangrove is a survival of a very remote period in the development of the earth — that a mangrove swamp represents an age when the earth was enveloped in clouds and mist; and that with the gradual decrease in tepid aqueous vapour the viviparous habit, then almost universal, was lost, except in the case of this plant.
- It has been suggested that the viviparity of the mangrove is a survival of a very remote period in the development of the earth -- that a mangrove swamp represents an age when the earth was enveloped in clouds and mist; and that with the gradual decrease in tepid aqueous vapour the viviparous habit, then almost universal, was lost, except in the case of this plant.