jungular

English

Etymology

From jungle +‎ -ar.

Adjective

jungular (comparative more jungular, superlative most jungular)

1. Like a jungle.
   • 2014, D. J. Taylor, The Windsor Faction‎^[1], page 353:

     Instead she went out of the back door, along the edge of the kitchen garden and a jungular conservatory stuffed full of moribund tomato vines, through a low wicker gate in the red-stone wall and out into the wider landscape beyond.

   • 2014, David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration‎^[2], page 11:

     Huge fish fins were riding his shoulders and tattooed scales of komodo dragons, returned from the wilds of jungular africa^[sic], twisting outlines and colors of clawed feet and tails smoothing over his aged biceps and the cool white of his head, shaved to permit tattoos of mythological beasts to lift around his neck like frescoes of faded photographs of samurai warriors: a sudden flash of Mishima's private army standing still as pillars along the sides of the river.

   • 2010, Gabriela Mistral, Selected Prose and Prose-Poems‎^[3], page 104:

     Madness! The animals roared in fright, lost in the jungular darkness. The birds squawked desperately, their nests high up in the inaccessible shrubs.