mangrove
See also: Mangrove
English
A red mangrove growing in shallow water (Rhizophora mangle)
Etymology
Circa 1610, corruption of earlier mangrow by folk etymology influence of grove, from Portuguese mangue, from Spanish mangle (or directly from Spanish), from a Caribbean language, possibly Taíno, another Arawakan language, or a Cariban language.[1][2][3]
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmæŋɡɹəʊv/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmæŋɡɹoʊv/
- Hyphenation: man‧grove
Noun
mangrove (plural mangroves)
- Any of various tropical evergreen trees or shrubs that grow in shallow coastal water.
- A habitat with such plants; mangrove forest; mangrove swamp.
- Plants of the Rhizophoraceae family.
- Trees of the genus Rhizophora.
Derived terms
terms derived from mangrove
- American mangrove (Rhizophora mangle)
- apple mangrove (Xylocarpus granatum (General Australian))
- Asiatic mangrove (Rhizophora mucronata)
- black mangrove (Avicennia germinans; Aegiceras corniculatum, Bruguiera gymnorhiza) (General Australian))
- blind-your-eye mangrove (Excoecaria agallocha (General Australian))
- Burmese mangrove (Bruguiera gymnorhiza)
- button mangrove (Conocarpus erectus)
- cannonball mangrove (Xylocarpus granatum (General Australian))
- cedar mangrove (Xylocarpus granatum)
- club mangrove (Aegialitis annulata)
- flat-leaved spurred mangrove (Ceriops decandra (General Australian))
- freshwater mangrove (Barringtonia, Carallia brachiata (General Australian))
- gray mangrove/grey mangrove (Avicennia marina)
- holly-leaf mangrove (Acanthus ilicifolius)
- holly mangrove (Acanthus ilicifolius)
- looking-glass mangrove (Heritiera littoralis)
- loop-root mangrove (Rhizophora mucronata)
- mangrove-holly (Acanthus ilicifolius)
- mangroveberry (Psidium longipes)
- mangrovevine (Rhabdadenia biflora)
- milky mangrove (Excoecaria agallocha)
- Oriental mangrove (Bruguiera gymnorhiza, Bruguiera sexangula)
- red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle, Rhizophora stylosa; Rhizophora mucronata, Heritiera littoralis (General Australian))
- river mangrove (Aegiceras corniculatum)
- slender-fruit orange mangrove (Bruguiera parviflora)
- small stilted mangrove (Rhizophora stylosa)
- spurred mangrove (Ceriops tagal (General Australian))
- stilt-root mangrove (Rhizophora stylosa (General Australian))
- tulip mangrove (Heritiera littoralis)
- white-flowered black mangrove (Lumnitzera racemosa)
- white mangrove (Laguncularia racemosa, Avicennia marina)
- yamstick mangrove (Scyphiphora hydrophylacea)
Translations
tropical tree or shrub that grows in shallow water
habitat
plant of the Rhizophoraceae family
See also
References
- “mangrove” in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.
- “mangrove” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.
- “mangrove” in Stuart Berg Flexner, editor in chief, Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd rev. and updated edition, New York, N.Y.: Random House, 1993, →ISBN; reproduced on Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɑŋro̞ʋe̞/
- Hyphenation: man‧gro‧ve
Noun
mangrove
- mangrove (tropical tree or shrub of any taxon that grows on waterlogged brackish soils)
Declension
- Also mangroveiden is often used for genitive plural.
| Inflection of mangrove (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | mangrove | mangrovet | |
| genitive | mangroven | mangrovejen | |
| partitive | mangrovea | mangroveja | |
| illative | mangroveen | mangroveihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | mangrove | mangrovet | |
| accusative | nom. | mangrove | mangrovet |
| gen. | mangroven | ||
| genitive | mangroven | mangrovejen mangroveinrare | |
| partitive | mangrovea | mangroveja | |
| inessive | mangrovessa | mangroveissa | |
| elative | mangrovesta | mangroveista | |
| illative | mangroveen | mangroveihin | |
| adessive | mangrovella | mangroveilla | |
| ablative | mangrovelta | mangroveilta | |
| allative | mangrovelle | mangroveille | |
| essive | mangrovena | mangroveina | |
| translative | mangroveksi | mangroveiksi | |
| instructive | — | mangrovein | |
| abessive | mangrovetta | mangroveitta | |
| comitative | — | mangroveineen | |
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɑ̃.ɡʁɔv/
Further reading
- “mangrove” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Norwegian Bokmål
Mangrove
Noun
mangrove m (definite singular mangroven, indefinite plural mangrover, definite plural mangrovene)
- mangrove (tree or forest)
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
mangrove m (definite singular mangroven, indefinite plural mangrovar, definite plural mangrovane)
- mangrove (tree or forest)
References
- “mangrove” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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