Cerrado

See also: cerrado

English

Noun

Cerrado (countable and uncountable, plural Cerrados)

1. Alternative letter-case form of cerrado
   • 2020 November 25, Dom Phillips, “The Cerrado: how Brazil’s vital ‘water tank’ went from forest to soy fields”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Nearly half (44%) of the Cerrado’s native vegetation, which includes scrubland, grasslands and forests, is already used for agriculture, the MapBiomas monitoring project calculates.

   • 2023, Daniel R. Reichman, Progress in the Balance: Mythologies of Development in Santos, Brazil, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 68:

     The Cerrado region now provides 54 percent of all soybeans harvested in Brazil, 28 percent of the country's corn, and 59 percent of its coffee.