: a forest growing along a watercourse in a region otherwise devoid of trees
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Their habitats, known as gallery forests, border rivers in the Amazon basin that are seasonally flooded, creating flora adapted to the constant washing in of nutrients from river waters.—Jessica Camille Aguirre, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2025 The cottonwood and willow gallery forests that line the river bank are aging, and the lack of new individuals presents a big challenge, said Kim Schonek, water program director for The Nature Conservancy.—The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2023 The habitat at the Hato Masagüaral consists of tropical savannah, gallery forest and, because parts of it are still a working cattle ranch, pastures.—Grrlscientist, Forbes, 21 June 2022
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