mangrove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæŋɡɹəʊv/
ipa: /ˈmæŋɡɹoʊv/
text: -
Forms: form: mangroves
Etymology: A modification of earlier mangrowe (obsolete) by the influence of grove (“small forest”) through folk etymology. Mangrowe is probably borrowed from Spanish mangle, mangue (whence English mangle) (probably from an Arawak language (such as Taíno), or a Cariban language) + an unknown word ending.
Senses: examples: text: The channel by which we went to, and returned from Olinda, was bordered on each side by mangroves, which sprang like a miniature forest out of the greasy mud-banks. The bright green colour of these bushes always reminded me of the rank grass in a churchyard: both are nourished by putrid exhalations; the one speaks of death past, and the other too often of death to come.
ref: 1839, Charles Darwin, chapter XXIII, in Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty’s Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the Years 1826 and 1836, […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 593:
text: We called […] in 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.
ref: 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, column 1:
text: The team that found the species living in a mangrove forest also included Thai wildlife YouTuber JoCho Sippawat, who is also an author on the paper published last week.
ref: 2023 September 26, Hafsa Khalil, “Electric blue tarantula species discovered in Thailand”, in CNN:
text: 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. […] The Barra de Santiago is bordered on one side by mangroves with the ocean on the other; the project will be the first to build houses on the mangrove side.
ref: 2024 September 5, Camilo Freedman, “The vanishing mangroves of El Salvador: ‘All our efforts may only slow the destruction’”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Mar 2025:
synonyms: mangle
glosses: Any of various tropical and subtropical evergreen shrubs or trees chiefly of the Rhizophoraceae family that have aerial roots and grow in clumps in brackish intertidal coastal areas; (specifically) any of various trees of the genus Rhizophora, especially the red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle).
synonyms: mangle
glosses: A forest of such shrubs or trees.
synonyms: mangle
glosses: Preceded by a descriptive word: any of various shrubs or trees of genera other than Rhizophora which resemble plants of this genus in appearance and habitat.
examples: text: There has been some investigation into the potential of seaweeds as a carbon store, and although more is needed, one study says that seaweed habitats are believed to be the most productive of all coastal vegetated ecosystems, and suggested that the world's seaweed sequesters as much carbon as all the planet’s seagrass meadows, saltmarshes and mangroves combined.
ref: 2023 September 27, Vincent Doumeizel, “Opinion: Seaweed is Nutritious, Not Slimy. Eating It could Save the World.”, in CNN, archived from the original on 13 May 2025:
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of mangal (“a tropical and subtropical coastal intertidal swampland ecosystem characterized by mangroves (sense 1) or similar shrubs and trees”).
synonyms: word: mangal
extra: (“a tropical and subtropical coastal intertidal swampland ecosystem characterized by mangroves (sense 1) or similar shrubs and trees”)
Hyponyms: sense: plants
taxonomic: Rhizophora mangle
word: American mangrove
sense: plants
taxonomic: Xylocarpus granatum
word: apple mangrove
sense: plants
taxonomic: Rhizophora mucronata
word: Asiatic mangrove
sense: plants
alt: Avicennia germinans; Aegiceras corniculatum, Bruguiera gymnorhiza
word: black mangrove)
sense: plants
taxonomic: Excoecaria agallocha
word: blind-your-eye mangrove
sense: plants
taxonomic: Bruguiera gymnorhiza
word: Burmese mangrove
sense: plants
taxonomic: Conocarpus erectus
word: button mangrove
sense: plants
taxonomic: Xylocarpus granatum
word: cannonball mangrove
sense: plants
taxonomic: Xylocarpus granatum
word: cedar mangrove
sense: plants
taxonomic: Aegialitis annulata
word: club mangrove
sense: plants
taxonomic: Ceriops decandra
word: flat-leaved spurred mangrove
sense: plants
english: Barringtonia, Carallia brachiata (Australia)
translation: Barringtonia, Carallia brachiata (Australia)
word: freshwater mangrove
sense: plants
word: gray mangrove
sense: plants
taxonomic: Avicennia marina
word: grey mangrove
sense: plants
word: holly-leaf mangrove
sense: plants
taxonomic: Acanthus ilicifolius
word: holly mangrove
sense: plants
taxonomic: Heritiera littoralis
word: looking-glass mangrove
sense: plants
taxonomic: Rhizophora mucronata
word: loop-root mangrove
sense: plants
word: mangrove apple
sense: plants
taxonomic: Mosiera longipes
word: mangroveberry
sense: plants
taxonomic: Coccoloba uvifera
word: mangrove grape
sense: plants
taxonomic: Acanthus ilicifolius
word: mangrove-holly
sense: plants
taxonomic: Barringtonia acutangula
word: mangrove-myrtle
sense: plants
taxonomic: Rhabdadenia biflora
word: mangrovevine
sense: plants
taxonomic: Excoecaria agallocha
word: milky mangrove
sense: plants
alt: Acacia longifolia var. sophorae
word: native mangrove
sense: plants
taxonomic: Avicennia germinans
word: olive mangrove
sense: plants
taxonomic: Bruguiera sexangula
word: Oriental mangrove
sense: plants
taxonomic: Rhizophora mangle
alt: Rhizophora stylosa; Rhizophora mucronata, Heritiera littoralis (Australia)
word: red mangrove
sense: plants
taxonomic: Aegiceras corniculatum
word: river mangrove
sense: plants
alt: Hibiscus tiliaceus or Laguncularia racemosa
word: rope mangrove
sense: plants
taxonomic: Bruguiera parviflora
word: slender-fruit orange mangrove
sense: plants
taxonomic: Rhizophora stylosa
word: small stilted mangrove
sense: plants
taxonomic: Ceriops tagal
word: spurred mangrove
sense: plants
taxonomic: Sonneratia alba
word: star mangrove
sense: plants
taxonomic: Rhizophora stylosa
word: stilt-root mangrove
sense: plants
taxonomic: Pelliciera rhizophorae
word: tea mangrove
sense: plants
taxonomic: Heritiera littoralis
word: tulip mangrove
sense: plants
taxonomic: Lumnitzera racemosa
word: white-flowered black mangrove
sense: plants
taxonomic: Laguncularia racemosa
word: white mangrove
sense: plants
taxonomic: Scyphiphora hydrophylacea
word: yamstick mangrove
Derived terms: word: mangrove black hawk
taxonomic: Corallus hortulana
word: mangrove cascabel
word: Mangrove Cay
word: mangrove cuckoo
taxonomic: Chrysops spp.
word: mangrove fly
word: mangrove gerygone
word: mangrove golden whistler
taxonomic: Rallus longirostris
word: mangrove hen
word: mangrove heron
word: mangrove jack
word: mangrove jezebel
word: mangrove oyster
word: mangrove rail
word: mangrove robin
word: mangrove snake
word: mangrove snapper