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JUNGLE (Sans. jangala)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 556 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JUNGLE (Sans. jangala)  , an Anglo-See also:Indian See also:term for a See also:forest, a thicket, a tangled See also:wilderness . The Hindustani word means strictly See also:waste, uncultivated ground; then such ground covered with trees or See also:long grass; and thence again the Anglo-Indian application is to forest or other See also:wild growth, rather than to the fact that it is not cultivated .

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