Look up: caatinga

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   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.
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   Caatinga
   `Caatinga` 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 kmò and 1,000,000 kmò (depending on the source), over 10% of the Brazil's territory. Caatinga is a xeric shrubland and thorn forest, which consists primarily of small, thorny...
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   Caatinga
   • (n.) A forest composed of stunted trees and thorny bushes, found in areas of small rainfall in Brazil.
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   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, South America, and Australia. In ......
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