Jungle
a term adopted into the English literature from Bengal (Sanskrit Jangala, "desert") and employed to designate those thickets of trees, shrubs, and reeds which abound in many unhealthy tract called Terai or Tarayani, parts of India, and particularly in the along the S. base of the Himalaya, and in the Sundarbans at the mouth of the Ganges. Tigers and other beasts of prey, elephants, boars, deer, and other quadrupeds may be found in great numbers in these thickets, with gigantic snakes and multitudes of monkeys. See BENGAL: INDIA.