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karo

karo noun: pittosporum crassifolium, a shrub of New Zealand.

Noun (1)

karo (uncountable)

  1. Pittosporum crassifolium, a shrub of New Zealand.

Noun (2) capitalized: Karo

Karo pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) An ethnic group from Ethiopia.
  2. (plural, plural-only) The indigenous people of the Karo Plateau in North Sumatra.

Proper noun capitalized: Karo

Karo

  1. A Tupian language.
  2. An Omotic language.
  3. A Nilotic language of Uganda, South Sudan and the DRC.

Origin of karo

Borrowed from Māori karo.

Questions about karo

What does karo mean?
Karo means pittosporum crassifolium, a shrub of New Zealand.
What part of speech is karo?
Karo can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near karo in the dictionary

  1. Karnobat
  2. Karnofsky
  3. karns
  4. Karnses
  5. Karnul
  6. karo
  7. Karo Batak
  8. karob
  9. karobs
  10. Karofsky
  11. karogram

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