How to say "jungle" in Japanese

• ジャングルCommon
  nounCovers 'jungle' in its everyday English sense — wild tropical forest, whether literal or figurative. Being the loanword itself, it is the natural default when English speakers picture a jungle.
  この船ふねはジャングルを通とおりぬける。↗

  This boat goes through the jungle.
• 密林みつりんCommon
  nounMeans a dense, close thicket or thickly grown forest; 'jungle' is one of its glosses. It suits descriptive writing about thickly wooded terrain, but the loanword is usually the safer everyday choice.
  我々われわれはどうにかしてその密林みつりんを通り抜とおりぬけよう。↗

  We will get through the jungle somehow.

Use 「ジャングル」 for the usual English sense of a tropical jungle; 密林 is a more literal word for dense, close-growing forest and jungle as geographic description.

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• ジャングルjungle
• 密林みつりんclose thicket