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jungle noun A rhododendron thicket.
1878 Coale Wilburn Waters 61 It was a sultry, drizzly day, and the “sign” appearing to be several days old, and having greatly fatigued himself by working his way up through tangled vines and laurel jungles, and climbing over and around steep precipices, he lay down to rest under a shelving rock and fell asleep. 1936 (in 1952 Mathes Tall Tales 202) As the four gassed and gossiped, Sevier Dugger ambled out of the laurel that fringed the jungle and joined the group. 1939 Hall Coll (Deep Creek NC) I started on up through the jungles and got up two or three hundred yards above [the bear]. 1955 Parris Roaming Mts 177 Few men and dogs can follow them into the rhododendron jungles which are so thick that you have to crawl through them.