Definition of "rainforest"

Perhaps the most impressive expression of species diversity is the density of species found in a given area of rainforest.

2002, Chris C. Park, Tropical Rainforests, page 27

Tropical rainforests in Australia have suffered a fate similar in many ways to that of rainforests elsewhere in the world, but considerable progress in safeguarding the future of what remains has been made.

2004, Nigel E. Stork, “24: The Theory and Practice of Planning for Long-Term Conservation of Biodiversity of Wet Tropics Rainforests in Australia”, in Eldredge Bermingham, Christopher W. Dick, Craig Moritz, editors, Tropical Rainforests: Past, Present, and Future, page 508

Enjoy your visit to the rainforests, because the next time you go there things could be very different.

2014, Nick Hunter, Rainforests, page 38