cerrado
Americannoun
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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
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When scientists say that people shouldn’t plant trees in the Brazilian cerrado, he said, they spoke of grasslands and savannas, ignoring the scattered areas of dense forest like this one.
From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2022
“They chose one of the most conserved areas in the cerrado to plant trees,” Pilon said.
From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2022
For those who can endure the demands of the Brazilian cerrado, fortunes can bloom.
From Newsweek ● Apr. 29, 2013
The cerrado is the Western Hemisphere’s newest agricultural frontier, and no one rides taller here than Abreu.
From Newsweek ● Apr. 29, 2013
The cerrado they never leave till bound for the Plaza.
From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Buck, Walter J.
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 Buck, Walter J.
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 Kingston, William Henry Giles
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