cerrado

American  

[suh-rah-doh, si-rah-doo] / səˈrɑ doʊ, sɪˈrɑ dʊ /

noun

Ecology.

plural

cerrados

1. a type of plains community characterized by vegetation ranging from tropical broadleaf woodlands to scrublands, occurring in extensive areas of Brazil.

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Etymology

Origin of cerrado

< Brazilian Portuguese; Portuguese: noun use of cerrado thick, dense, literally, shut, past participle of cerrar to close < Vulgar Latin *serrāre; c in Portuguese, Spanish perhaps by association with cercar to enclose, surround

Example Sentences

That same conversation, in different languages about different crops, is being replicated from the Punjab in India to Italy’s Po Valley and Brazil’s Cerrado.

From The Wall Street Journal

Una vez más, se ha cerrado la puerta a su ingreso en el Salón de la Fama.

From Los Angeles Times

Forest loss also slowed 11 percent in the Cerrado, a vast region of tropical savannah in central Brazil.

From Barron's

In Brazil, huge swaths of the Amazon rainforest and Cerrado savanna have been lost to pastures and fields that produce beef and soybeans.

From Science Magazine

In the Cerrado, which is the centre of agricultural production, there was a 6% increase in tree loss.

From BBC