cerrado
Definitions
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- noun A type of tropical savanna biome occupying much of central Brazil and parts of Paraguay.
Examples
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And right now, 2015, we are expanding our work once again to the Brazilian cerrado, the open grasslands and shrub forests in the central part of Brazil.
Patrícia Medici: The coolest animal you know nothing about ... and how we can save it (TED)
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One answer has been to transform large areas of scrub land, known as cerrado, into arable land, by reducing the soil's acidity to make it suitable for cattle grazing and soybean cultivation.
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The cerrado is a big prairie, comparable to our great plains.
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The legal Amazon, an region consisting of rainforests and a biologically-rich grassland known as cerrado, is now home to more than 80 million head of cattle.
Note
The word 'cerrado' comes from Portuguese 'cerrado' (shut), from 'cerrar' (to shut).
