Jūn’gle, n.

(jŭng’gl), n. [Hind. jangal, desert, forest, jungle; Skr. janggala, desert.] Land mostly covered with forest-trees, brush-wood, &c., or coarse, reedy vegetation, but not wholly uninhabited;—sometimes equivalent to country, as distinguished from villages. [India.]

Jungle-cock (Ornith.), a wild cock found in the East Indies in the jungles, having colored horny processes on some of the feathers.