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cerrados

cerrados is the plural of cerrado.

Meaning of cerrado

Noun

cerrado (countable and uncountable, plural cerrados)

  1. (uncountable) A type of tropical savanna biome found in much of central Brazil and parts of Paraguay.
  2. (capitalized, countable, often) A region with this biome.
    • The biggest breakthrough on the horizon is coming on Latin America's vast cerrado, the seemingly endless grassy plains centered in Brazil. The cerrado covers more than 200 million hectares (500 million acres)—more than all the cultivated land that feeds India's more than 800 million people.1993 July 15, Richard Critchfield, “For Green Revolutionaries, A Latin American Triumph”, in International Herald Tribune

Questions about cerrados

What is cerrados the plural of?
Cerrados is the plural of cerrado.

Words near cerrados in the dictionary

  1. ceroxyloid
  2. Cerqueira
  3. Cerqueiras
  4. Cerra
  5. cerrado
  6. cerrados
  7. Cerras
  8. Cerrato
  9. Cerratos
  10. cerrelation
  11. cerrial

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