cerrado
noun
a type of plains community characterized by vegetation ranging from tropical broadleaf woodlands to scrublands, occurring in extensive areas of Brazil.
cerrados
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pluralof cerrado.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Tens of thousands of poor farmers are moving into the fertile but undeveloped cerrados savannah region in the central plateau.
From Time Magazine Archive
At four years old they are moved into the cerrados, or enclosures—fields of great extent, surrounded by a wooden stockade and double ditch.
From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Walter J. Buck
The cerrados, as they are called, or scrub—consisting chiefly of acacias and leguminosae—reach to the height of ten or twenty feet.
From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by William Henry Giles Kingston
