Mangrove is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MANGROVE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• any of various tropical trees or shrubs with interlacing aerial roots
• a tree or shrub which grows in tidal, chiefly tropical, coastal swamps, having numerous tangled roots that grow above ground and form dense thickets.
• a tidal swamp which is dominated by mangroves.
• tropical tree with exposed roots, which grows beside water
• The name of one or two trees of the genus Rhizophora (R. Mangle, and R. mucronata, the last doubtfully distinct) inhabiting muddy shores of tropical regions, where they spread by emitting aerial roots, which fasten in the saline mire and eventually become new stems. The seeds also send down a strong root while yet attached to the parent plant.
• The mango fish.
• a tropical tree or shrub bearing fruit that germinates while still on the tree and having numerous prop roots that eventually form an impenetrable mass and are important in land building
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a tropical tree or shrub

Words related to MANGROVE

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Words that contain MANGROVE

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How to use MANGROVE in a sentence

• The existence of a narrow belt of mangrove along the bank of the river indicates that the water is often salt to the head of the Albert.
• By and by he changed the course and mountains rose ahead, although a bank of cloud hid the plain and mangrove forest at their feet.
• In the first man-drive through the mangrove swamp Seelee caught two.
• We were, however, near enough to see large sheets of water over the mangrove belt that lined the shore, in which many openings were observed that communicated with it.
• The south end of Adolphus Island, of which I had a commanding view, is a low, flat salt-swamp surrounded by mangrove bushes.
• Further inland it was sticky mud, thickly planted over with mangrove roots and gullies in whose soft banks one sank over the ankles.
• While glancing down the channel, Davy observed some dark objects appearing near a mangrove island.
• The pungent smell of the mangrove swamp was wafted now to his nostrils.
• Before them lay the apparently limitless expanse of the same formation, dotted sparsely with clumps of grass and flowers and at rare intervals with tiny mangrove islands.
• He was above the tops of the other trees on the bank, and mud, water and mangrove swamp lay well below.
• As the Arla drew in to an anchorage in the midst of mangrove swamps, a double row of barbed wire was stretched around above her rail.
• There was a small mangrove inlet in the South-East corner of this harbour, over which the land was low, forming a gap in the neighbouring heights.
• After examining two mangrove creeks of no importance, in the north-west corner of the bay fronting the ship, we returned.
• The latter was intersected by creeks that could be traced by the mangrove fringe which marked their course.
• Between Picard and Cape Lambert the shore is cut up by mangrove creeks.
• The shore was sandy to the westward, a remarkable circumstance, considering that nearly everywhere else all was mangrove.
• The exterior part of the island upon the west side was a flat, over which the tide seemed to rise, and was abundantly covered with large mangrove trees.
• The banks were swampy, overgrown with mangrove trees, and the deep silence and repose of these extensive forests made a solemn impression upon the mind.
• He observed them soon after landing, and saw by the fires which they made, that they had encamped under some mangrove trees.
• There is a mangrove swamp running up some distance on the northern side of the river, till it joins the freshwater swamps.
• One of our horses was slightly hurt by a stump of a mangrove tree.
• The boat left with our party, and Jackey directed us some distance off in the wake of the canoes, there being nothing but a mangrove swamp on the shore near us.
• A dense mangrove swamp extended some distance beyond high-water mark.
• It was about high-water when we landed, and in the mangrove scrub through which we had to go, the water was nearly up to our waists.
• It stood by itself on the swamps of the Forcados river with the mangrove forest closing in about it.
• They found no fresh water on the island, but it abounds with cabbage-palms, mangrove and manchineal trees, even up to to the summits of the mountains.
• We found many branches of the lake entering within the mangrove land but not beyond it.

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