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mangrove noun. E17.
[Prob. ult. from Portuguese mangue, Spanish mangle, from Taino, with 2nd elem. assim. to GROVE.]
Any of various tropical trees or shrubs of the genera Rhizophora and Bruguiera (family Rhizophoraceae) with interlacing aerial roots, which form dense thickets in muddy swamps subject to tidal inundation; esp. (in full common mangrove, red mangrove) Rhizophora mangle. E17.
Any of various other tropical trees or shrubs of similar habit and appearance, esp. of the genus Avicennia (of the verbena family). L17.
black mangrove (a) Avicennia marina, of Florida and the W. Indies; (b) Aegiceras majus, a similar and related Australian mangrove. white mangrove (a) a W. African and tropical American mangrove, Laguncularia racemosa (family Combretaceae); (b) a mangrove of the Pacific region, Avicennia officinalis, with leaves white beneath.
Comb.: mangrove crab any of various small grapsoid crabs of tropical American mangrove swamps; mangrove cuckoo a cuckoo, Coccyzus minor, of Florida and the W. Indies; mangrove fly a W. African tabanid fly, esp. Chrysops dimidiatus; mangrove-hen (in Jamaica) the clapper rail, Rallus longirostris; mangrove jack an edible Indo-Pacific snapper fish, Lutjanus argentimaculatus, which frequents mangrove swamps; mangrove oyster a small edible Caribbean oyster, Ostrea frons, which grows on submerged mangrove roots; mangrove snapper the grey snapper, Lutjanus griseus, which frequents mangrove swamps.