Animals, plants & weather

jungle

Sanskrit jāṅgala meant dry, sparsely wooded wasteland; in Hindi jaṅgal came to mean any uncultivated land, and the British turned it into a tangled tropical forest. Kipling's Jungle Book (1894) then carried it into French, German, Russian, Japanese and beyond.

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