a. [f. JUNGLE + -Y1.]
1. Of the nature of or characterized by jungle; abounding in jungle; jungle-like.
1800. Wellington, Lett. to Lt.-Col. Close, 22 May, in Gurw., Desp. (1837), I. 119. The country is so jungly that they could not act when they should arrive there.
1838. Chamb. Edin. Jrnl., 3 March, 47/3. The spot on which the cow was lying was exceedingly jungley.
1859. R. F. Burton, Centr. Afr., in Jrnl. Geog. Soc., XXIX. 109. A stream … flowing under high banks bearing a dense jungly bush in a bed of mire and grass.
1866. Daily Tel., 22 Feb., 5/5. An undulating expanse of stony, jungly, incult desert—a mere blasted heath.
2. Inhabiting a jungle.
1880. Sat. Rev., 28 Feb., 285/2. The spirit of the jungly tribes was anything but divine.
