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mangrove

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a shrub or small tree that grows in coastal saline or brackish water. The term is also used for tropical coastal vegetation consisting of such species. Mangroves occur worldwide in the tropics and subtropics, mainly between latitudes 25° N and 25° S. The total mangrove forest area of the world in 2000 was 137,800 square kilometres (53,200 sq mi), spanning 118 countries and territories.

Mangroves are salt-tolerant trees, also called halophytes, and are adapted to life in harsh coastal conditions. They contain a complex salt filtration system and complex root system to cope with salt water immersion and wave action. They are adapted to the low oxygen conditions of waterlogged mud.
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Mangrove forests move carbon dioxide "from the atmosphere into long-term storage" in greater quantities than other forests, making them "among the planet's best carbon scrubbers" according to a NASA-led study based on satellite data.

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and where mangroves can grow there is no chance of survival for other trees. Where the mangroves began, too, the water lilies ended, abruptly, for they could not endure life in the deep shade which the mangroves cast.

Cecil Scott Forester. The African Queen, p.128 (1935)
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we dropped anchor at the mouth of a small creek which debouched into the harbour through a number of mangrove islets

Louis Becke. The Strange Adventure of James Shervinton (1902)
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Baldrick: Don't look much like Southampton to me, my lord.
Blackadder: What?
Baldrick: Well, those streams of molten lava and that steamy mangrove swamp, and that crowd of beckoning natives rubbing their tummies and pointing to a large pot.

BBC. Blackadder, season 2: Potato
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When he had decoded the telegram he would hand it to the long-suffering Commissioner, who had already probably received the same information or contradictory information from M.I.5. or one of the other secret organizations which took root on the coast like mangroves.

Graham Greene. The Heart of the Matter, p.171 (1948)
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