caatinga
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Borrowed from Portuguese caatinga, from Old Tupi ka'atinga.
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caatinga (plural caatingas)
- A sparse, thorny wooded area of northeastern Brazil containing drought-resistant trees.
- 1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 187:
- He then goes on his way at a steady pace that does not tire him, climbing up slopes or down ravines, traversing scrubland caatinga or stony ground.
- 2000, David Lewis Lentz, Imperfect Balance: Landscape Transformations in the Precolumbian Americas, page 426:
- The geological substrate of the caatinga is severely eroded crystalline bedrock of the Precambrian Brazilian Shield and Paleozoic and Mesozoic sedimentary basins.
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caatinga f (plural caatingas)
- caatinga (sparse, thorny wooded area of northeastern Brazil)