cerrado
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- noun
- /səˈrɑːdoʊ/
- Many animals, such as the jaguar and the maned wolf, inhabit the cerrado region.
- Brazil's cerrado
- Brazilian cerrado
- cerrado plants
Examples
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Cerrado (central Brazilian savanna)
Academic text (2012) -
As an example, the vast cerrado (savanna) of Brazil has become a globally important source of soybeans and pastureland over the last four decades.
Academic text (2006) -
For example, the Cerrado area is a large (approximately 2 million m²) territory that encompasses 10 states of Brazil.
Academic text (2013) -
Although neither the Atlantic rainforest nor the Cerrado biomes are exclusive to Brazil (see table 1), the fact that the great majority of their extent is within Brazilian boundaries explains their large contribution of endemic species.
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Written accounts are few, but we know that in the early 1800s, Austrian naturalist Johann Natterer collected several Eskimo curlews between September and November near the iron mines of Ipanema at the south end of the cerrado.
Academic text (1992) -
The cerrado is home to a diverse range of species, making it an important ecosystem in Brazil.
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Conservation efforts are crucial to protect the unique plants and animals that thrive in the cerrado.
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word cerrado comes from Portuguese cerrar, which means 'to close'. People used it for land with 'closed' or very thick plants, so it became the name for the large Brazilian savanna full of bushes and trees.