Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A type of sparse, stunted woodland occupying extensive tracts, alternating with savanna, in the dry region of eastern and central Brazil.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Phytogeography) A forest composed of stunted trees and thorny bushes, found in areas of small rainfall in Brazil.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A sparse, thorny wooded area of northeastern
Brazil containing drought-resistant trees.
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Examples
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This fish occurs in an area of untouched 'caatinga' scrub or thorn forest.
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This fish occurs in an area of untouched 'caatinga' scrub or thorn forest.
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The largest component of this is the arboreal Rio Negro caatinga.
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Tree ferns and palms such as Geonoma appuniana and Euterpe caatinga grow well and Bromeliaceae and Eriocaulaceae grow in the understorey (Castillo, 2005; Sears, 2001b).
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Some authors regard Atlantic dry forests as a kind of caatinga.
Atlantic dry forests 2008
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This is characterised by low trees with thin trunks, with many bromeliad and orchid epiphytes; it grows on sandy nutrient-poor soils and averages 108 plant species per hectare campinarana or Rio Negro caatinga, a tall dry shrub-woodland mosaic restricted to the Rio Negro region which grows primarily in well drained uplands.
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Elements of the Rio Negro caatinga vegetation on white sands are found near the border of Venezuela and Colombia.
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The caatinga antwren (Herpsilochmus sellowi) has an isolated population in the Serra do Cachimbo.
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Small patches of cerrado and caatinga are also found where soils and geomorphology are adequate.
Atlantic dry forests 2008
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These dry forests form the transitional habitat between the caatinga xeric shrublands and cerrado ecoregions of eastern Brazil.
Atlantic dry forests 2008
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The expanse of the termites’ construction were hidden by scrubby forest known as caatinga.
A Metropolis of 200 Million Termite Mounds Was Hidden in Plain Sight By 2019
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