mangrove

Any of various tropical or subtropical evergreen salt-tolerant trees or shrubs especially of the family Rhizophoraceae, forming dense thickets along tidal shores and typically having well-developed aerial roots.

Bruguiera Rheedii, a small tree which yields a good tan-bark and a hard, durable, yellowish-brown wood;

Heritiera littoralis, a tree of the family Sterculiaceæ. See Heritiera and sundari.

A tree of the genus Rhizophora, chiefly R. mucronata (R. Mangle), the common mangrove, abounding on tropical shores in both hemispheres.

Another plant of similar habit, especially a plant of the genus Avicennia.

In zoology, the mango-fish.

The name of one or two trees of the genus Rhizophora (Rhizophora Mangle, and Rhizophora mucronata, the last doubtfully distinct) inhabiting muddy shores of tropical regions, where they spread by emitting aërial roots, which fasten in the saline mire and eventually become new stems. The seeds also send down a strong root while yet attached to the parent plant.

The mango fish.

Any of various tropical evergreen trees or shrubs that grow in shallow coastal water.

A habitat with such plants; mangrove forest; mangrove swamp.