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  1. Caatinga
    Caa·tin'ga noun [ Tupi caa- tinga white forest.] (Phytogeography) A forest composed of stunted trees and thorny bushes, found in areas of small rainfall in Brazil.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/1

  2. Caatinga
    • (n.) A forest composed of stunted trees and thorny bushes, found in areas of small rainfall in Brazil.
    Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/caatinga/

  3. caatinga
    (from the article `South America`) Caatinga (white forest) refers to the generally stunted, somewhat sparse, and often thorny vegetation of the dry interior of northeastern Brazil. ... ...vegetation covers a large part of southwestern North America and southwestern Africa and smaller areas in Africa...
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/c/1

  4. caatinga
    a low grade, dry, semi-deciduous thorny forest in northeastern Brasil.
    Found op http://www.seafriends.org.nz/books/glossary.htm

  5. Caatinga
    Caatinga (kaaˈtʃĩɡɐ) is a type of vegetation, and an ecoregion characterized by this vegetation in the northeastern part of Brazil. The name "Caatinga" is a Tupi word meaning "white forest" or "white vegetation" (kaa = forest, vegetation, tínga = white). It covers between 700,000 km² and 1,0...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caatinga

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