| 词汇 | jungle |
| 词源 | jungle. Another word that the British brought back from In- dia, jungle began life as the Hindi jangal. In Hindi it first meant “a desert”; then it took on the meaning of “uncultivated land”; and finally, it came to mean “land wild with trees and other un- cultivated growth.” |
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