Piracicaba

American  

[pee-rah-si-kah-bah] / ˌpi rɑ sɪˈkɑ bɑ /

noun

1. a city in SE Brazil, NW of São Paulo.

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Example Sentences

“Tree planting is often viewed as the simple act of digging a hole,” forest scientists Pedro Brancalion of the University of São Paulo, Piracicaba, and Karen Holl of the University of California, Santa Cruz, noted last year in a review of agroforestry projects in the Journal of Applied Ecology.

From Science Magazine

If you read variety descriptions carefully, you’ll learn about the diversity of traits possible within a single crop, and notice that some broccoli makes one big head, for example, while others are “non-heading,” like Piracicaba, forming a cluster of smaller florets over a number of weeks.

From New York Times

The accident happened beside the Piracicaba River.

From Washington Times

In many places, grazing cattle or growing crops is simply more profitable than allowing trees to come back, notes Pedro Brancalion, a forest expert at the University of São Paulo in Piracicaba, Brazil.

From Science Magazine

The company that makes the brand says it is adding another shift at its factory in Piracicaba, Brazil.

From Washington Times