junglesome

comparative more junglesome · superlative most junglesome

1. Characterised or marked by jungle (terrain); jungly.

   There's one especially junglesome place that nobody but me knows about.

   1950, Kent Curtis, Cruises in the Sun, page 14

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   And when you came back from the junglesome rout, Refused to get out […]

   1912, Harper's Weekly - Issues 2872-2897, volume 56, page 6

   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

   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

   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

   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