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junglesome en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English jungle Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *somHós Proto-Germanic *samaz Proto-Germanic *-samaz Proto-West Germanic *-sam Old English -sum Middle English -som English -some English junglesome From jungle + -some.

Meanings

1. Characterised or marked by jungle (terrain); jungly.
   • Sometimes they happen along from Tibet; sometimes they just drift in from Sze-Chuen or Yun-nan, across the five impassable mountain ranges and through the junglesome valleys of the Mekong, the Salween, the Irrawaddy, and their nineteen confluent and affluent tributaries. 1922, Cyril Herbert Bretherton, Rhyme and Reason, page 93:
   • There's one especially junglesome place that nobody but me knows about. 1950, Kent Curtis, Cruises in the Sun, page 14:
   • Today, July 6, we covered the Missouri Valley from Charles Mix County to Vermilion and have seen some of the most junglesome haunts of the barberry you can imagine, thickets of thorny shrubs, creeping vines, trees, poison ivy waist high, and some climbing. 1926, U.S.- Bureau of plant industry. Office of cereal investigations, Cereal Courier, volume 18, page 148:
   • Don't shower her with flowers—her boudoir already is junglesome enough to make Thorley look to his laurels. 1916, W. J. Thorold, Arthur Hornblow, Our Players' Gallery, volumes 23-24:
   • An iron lattice separated the hall from the living room, where the stuffiness expanded in the shape of megafauna skin cushions and junglesome indoor plants. 2018, Edgar Cantero, Meddling Kids, page 144:
   • And when you came back from the junglesome rout, Refused to get out […] 1912, Harper's Weekly - Issues 2872-2897, volume 56, page 6:

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