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/
Audio (UK) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmæŋɡɹoʊv/
- Hyphenation: man‧grove
Noun
mangrove (plural mangroves)
- Any of various tropical evergreen trees or shrubs that grow in intertidal coastal brackish waters.
- 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.
- Plants of the Rhizophoraceae family.
- Trees of the genus Rhizophora.
Derived terms
terms derived from mangrove
- American mangrove (Rhizophora mangle)
- apple mangrove (Xylocarpus granatum (Australia))
- Asiatic mangrove (Rhizophora mucronata)
- black mangrove (Avicennia germinans; Aegiceras corniculatum, Bruguiera gymnorhiza) (Australia))
- blind-your-eye mangrove (Excoecaria agallocha (Australia))
- Burmese mangrove (Bruguiera gymnorhiza)
- button mangrove (Conocarpus erectus)
- cannonball mangrove (Xylocarpus granatum (Australia))
- cedar mangrove (Xylocarpus granatum)
- club mangrove (Aegialitis annulata)
- flat-leaved spurred mangrove (Ceriops decandra (Australia))
- freshwater mangrove (Barringtonia, Carallia brachiata (Australia))
- 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 (Australia))
- river mangrove (Aegiceras corniculatum)
- slender-fruit orange mangrove (Bruguiera parviflora)
- small stilted mangrove (Rhizophora stylosa)
- spurred mangrove (Ceriops tagal (Australia))
- stilt-root mangrove (Rhizophora stylosa (Australia))
- 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
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habitat
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plant of the Rhizophoraceae family
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tree of the genus Rhizophora
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See also
References
- “mangrove”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “mangrove”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- “mangrove”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present, reproduced from Stuart Berg Flexner, editor in chief, Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Random House, 1993, →ISBN.
Anagrams
Dutch
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 (file) - Hyphenation: man‧gro‧ve
- Rhymes: -oːvə
Noun
Derived terms
- mangroveboom
- mangrovebos
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɑŋroʋe/, [ˈmɑŋro̞ʋe̞]
- Rhymes: -ɑŋroʋe
- Syllabification(key): mang‧ro‧ve
Declension
- Also mangroveiden is often used for genitive plural.
Inflection of mangrove (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | ||||
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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 | See the possessive forms below. |
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Synonyms
- (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
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɑ̃.ɡʁɔv/
Audio (file)
Further reading
- “mangrove”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Norwegian Bokmål

Mangrove
Noun
mangrove m (definite singular mangroven, indefinite plural mangrover, definite plural mangrovene)
- mangrove (tree or forest)
Derived terms
References
- “mangrove” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “mangrove” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
mangrove m (definite singular mangroven, indefinite plural mangrovar, definite plural mangrovane)
- mangrove (tree or forest)
Derived terms
References
- “mangrove” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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