mangrove

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]

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmæŋɡɹəʊv/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmæŋɡɹoʊv/

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• Hyphenation: man‧grove

mangrove (plural mangroves)

1. Any of various tropical evergreen trees or shrubs that grow in intertidal coastal brackish waters.
2. A habitat with such plants; mangrove forest; mangrove swamp; mangal.
   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 204:

     [I]n and out of rivers, streams of death in life, whose banks were rotting into mud, whose waters, thickened into slime, invaded the contorted mangroves, that seemed to writhe at us in the extremity of an impotent despair.

3. Any of various plants of the Rhizophoraceae family.
4. Any of various trees of the genus Rhizophora.

• mangle

• mangrove on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• venogram

Borrowed from English mangrove, from earlier mangrow by folk etymology influence of grove, from Portuguese mangue, from Spanish mangle (or directly from Spanish), from a Caribbean language.

• IPA^(key): /ˌmɑŋˈɣroː.və/

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• Hyphenation: man‧gro‧ve
• Rhymes: -oːvə

mangrove m (plural mangroven or mangroves)

1. A mangrove tree.

   Synonyms: mangroveboom, wortelboom

2. A mangrove forest.

   Synonyms: mangrovebos, vloedbos

• mangroveboom
• mangrovebos
• mangrovereiger

From English mangrove.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑŋroʋe/, [ˈmɑ̝ŋro̞ʋe̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑŋroʋe
• Syllabification^(key): mang‧ro‧ve

mangrove

1. mangrove (all senses)

• Also mangroveiden is often used for genitive plural.

• (tropical tree or shrub that grows in shallow water): mangrovekasvi
• (habitat): mangrovemetsä, mangrovesuo
• (plant of the Rhizophoraceae family): mangrovepuukasvi
• (tree of the genus Rhizophora): mangrovepuu

• “mangrove”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

From earlier mangrore, borrowed from English mangrove.

• IPA^(key): /mɑ̃.ɡʁɔv/

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mangrove f (plural mangroves)

1. a mangrove forest

• “mangrove”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

mangrove f

1. plural of mangrova

From English mangrove.

mangrove m (definite singular mangroven, indefinite plural mangrover, definite plural mangrovene)

1. mangrove (tree or forest)

• mangroveskog

• “mangrove” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “mangrove” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From English mangrove.

mangrove m (definite singular mangroven, indefinite plural mangrovar, definite plural mangrovane)

1. mangrove (tree or forest)

• mangroveskog

• “mangrove” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From English mangrove.

• IPA^(key): /maŋˈɡroːvɛ/

mangrove c

1. mangrove

• mangroveskog

• mangrove in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• mangrove in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• mangrove in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)