June"ber`ry (?), n. (Bot.) (a) The small applelike berry of American
trees of genus Amelanchier; -- also called service berry. (b) The shrub
or tree which bears this fruit; -- also called shad bush, and shad
tree.
||Jun`ger*man"ni*a (?), n.; pl. Jungermanniæ (#). [NL. Named after
||Ludwig Jungermann, a German botanist.] (Bot.) A genus of hepatic
||mosses, now much circumscribed, but formerly comprising most plants
||of the order, which is sometimes therefore called Jungermanniaceæ.
||
Jun"gle (j"g'l), n. [Hind. jangal desert, forest, jungle; Skr.
ja&?;gala desert.] A dense growth of brushwood, grasses, reeds, vines,
etc.; an almost impenetrable thicket of trees, canes, and reedy
vegetation, as in India, Africa, Australia, and Brazil.
The jungles of India are of bamboos, canes, and other palms, very
difficult to penetrate.
Balfour (Cyc. of India).
Jungle bear (Zoöl.), the aswail or sloth bear. -- Jungle cat (Zoöl.),
the chaus. -- Jungle cock (Zoöl.), the male of a jungle fowl. -- Jungle
fowl. (Zoöl.) (a) Any wild species of the genus Gallus, of which
several species inhabit India and the adjacent islands; as, the
fork-tailed jungle fowl (G. varius) of Java, G. Stanleyi of Ceylon, and
G. Bankiva of India. The latter, which resembles the domestic gamecock,
is supposed to be one of the original species from which the domestic
fowl was derived. (b) An Australian grallatorial bird (Megapodius
tumulus) which is allied to the brush turkey, and, like the latter,
lays its eggs in mounds of vegetable matter, where they are hatched by
the heat produced by decomposition.
Jun"gly (-gl), a. Consisting of jungles; abounding with jungles; of the
nature of a jungle.
Jun"ior (jn"yr; 277), a. [L. contr. fr. juvenior, compar. of juvenis
young. See Juvenile.]