A Caribbean indigenous word fused with English "grove" to name one of Earth's most carbon-rich ecosystems.
A tree or shrub that grows in tidal, coastal swamps, having tangled roots that grow above ground and form dense thickets.
Probably from Spanish mangle (from Taino or Arawak) combined with English grove; the compound was reanalyzed as man + grove Key roots: mangle (Taino/Arawak: "mangrove").
Mangrove forests store up to four times more carbon per hectare than terrestrial rainforests, making them among the most valuable ecosystems on Earth for climate regulation. Yet we've lost over a third of the world's mangroves since 1980 — they're disappearing faster than rainforests.