caatinga
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese caatinga, from Old Tupi ka'atinga.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɑːˈtɪŋɡə/
Noun
caatinga (plural caatingas)
- A sparse, thorny wooded area of northeastern Brazil containing drought-resistant trees.
- 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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Portuguese
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