Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An arid plateau of southern Africa.
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- noun Any vast
prairie bordering adesert .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Mr. Deslandes also regularly gives springbok filet, veal shoulder and karoo lamb stew a French treatment.
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Given the oceanfront setting, seafood plays a big role in menus, as do local meats such as ostrich, karoo lamb and springbok, an antelope variety that's the national animal.
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The following distinct tree and shrub communities have been described; Protea caffra; Acacia hereroensis; Olea europaea ssp africana - Pavetta zeyheri; Combretum molle; Buddleja saligna – Rhoicissus tridentata; Salix capensis; Diospyros lycioidis – Rhus pyroides and Acacia karoo – Protasparagus suaveolens.
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The karoo sunset theme is a great idea, though I wonder how common these hot dray sunsets actually were.
Life's Time Capsule: Making of Karoo Sunset Weapon of Mass Imagination 2009
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The fauna in the Swartberg and Cederberg protected areas reflects their location close to the fynbos-Karoo interface with species such as grysbok Raphicerus melanotis, grey rhebuck Pelea capreolus and klipspringer Oreotragus oreotragus, steenbok Raphicerus campestris and grey duiker Sylvicapra grimmia, as well as karoo species not usually found in mountain fynbos such as springbok Antidorcas marsupialus.
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The succulent karoo in a global context: plant structural and functional comparison with North American winter-rainfall deserts.
Succulent Karoo 2008
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It is replaced by fynbos and succulent karoo at rainfalls higher and lower than this, respectively.
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Historical and contemporary land use and the desertification of the karoo.
Nama Karoo 2008
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At rainfalls higher and lower than this, it is replaced by fynbos and succulent karoo, respectively.
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Biogeography, endemsim and diversity of animals in the karoo.
Succulent Karoo 2008
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