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karroo

karroo is the alternative form of karoo.

Meaning of karoo

Noun

karoo (plural karoos)

  1. Any vast prairie bordering a desert.
  2. (South Africa) Any of the composite bushes typical of the Karoo.
    • The herd is kept in an enclosure with wire fence about 7 feet high[…] They eat grass and karoo, but prefer bush of every kind, even eating the bitter aloe.1901 July 5, “Domestication of the Eland”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 9, page 273

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Proper noun capitalized: Karroo

Karroo

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of Karoo.

Forms of karroo

pluralkarroos

Words formed from karroo

Questions about karroo

What is karroo the alternative form of?
Karroo is the alternative form of karoo.
What part of speech is karroo?
Karroo is a proper noun.

Words near karroo in the dictionary

  1. karrikins
  2. karris
  3. karrkaratul
  4. karrkaratuls
  5. karroid
  6. karroo
  7. karroos
  8. karrozin
  9. karrozini
  10. karrozins
  11. karrozzin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: karroo (page history and authors); Karroo (page history and authors); karoo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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