mangrove

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/

• Audio (Southern England):

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

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: man‧grove

Noun

mangrove (plural mangroves)

1. Any of various tropical evergreen trees or shrubs that grow in intertidal coastal brackish waters.
   • 2024 September 5, Camilo Freedman, “The vanishing mangroves of El Salvador: ‘All our efforts may only slow the destruction’”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     This lush forest, just a few miles from the Guatemalan border, teems with diverse wildlife – from crocodiles and crabs to fish darting through seemingly endless mangroves.

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.

References

Further reading

• mangrove on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• venogram

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌmɑŋˈɣroː.və/

• Audio:

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

Noun

mangrove m (plural mangroven or mangroves)

1. a mangrove tree

   Synonyms: mangroveboom, wortelboom

2. a mangrove forest

   Synonyms: mangrovebos, vloedbos

Etymology

From English mangrove.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mangrove

1. mangrove (all senses)

Further reading

• “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

Etymology

From earlier mangrore, borrowed from English mangrove.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɑ̃.ɡʁɔv/

• Audio:

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Noun

mangrove f (plural mangroves)

1. a mangrove forest

Further reading

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

Etymology

Possibly from Dutch mangrove.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /maŋˈrovə/ [maŋˈro.fə]
• Rhymes: -ovə
• Syllabification: mang‧ro‧ve

Noun

mangrovê (plural mangrove-mangrove)

1. mangrove (tropical tree or shrub that grows in shallow water)

   Synonym: bakau

Further reading

• “mangrove” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Noun

mangrove f

1. plural of mangrova

Etymology

From English mangrove.

Noun

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

1. mangrove (tree or forest)

References

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

Etymology

From English mangrove.

Noun

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

1. mangrove (tree or forest)

References

• “mangrove” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Etymology

From English mangrove.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maŋˈɡroːvɛ/

Noun

mangrove c

1. mangrove

References

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