pantanal
/ˈpɑntəˌnɑl/
pantanal noun: a marsh (a broad, flat area with pools of water and trees) in the Pantanal region of South America.
Noun
pantanal (plural pantanals)
- A marsh (a broad, flat area with pools of water and trees) in the Pantanal region of South America.
- To the west the savannahs extend as far as the affluents of the Paraguay and Madeira. Here, as on the coast, we come again to primeval forests, the 'pantanals,' of a tropical luxuriance, which, like the forests of Hylæa, owe their peculiarities to running water. To the south of these the plains of...1878, Otto Wilhelm Thomé, Alfred William Bennett, Text-book of Structural and Physiological Botany, page 453
- Lepidosiren lives in the vast swamps (chacos and pantanals) of Rio Paraguay and Rio Amazonas.1912, Bashford Dean, Edmund Otis Hovey, Fritz Felix Hahn, George Herbert Girty, John Diederich Haseman, Neil E. Stevens, R. D. O. Johnson, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Vernon Freeman Marsters, William King...
Proper noun capitalized: Pantanal
Pantanal
- A tropical wetlands region of central South America.
- Usually flooded for much of the year, the Pantanal in recent years has been parched by a string of severe droughts that scientists have linked to deforestation and climate change.2024 August 27, Ana Ionova, “The World’s Largest Wetland Is Burning, and Rare Animals Are Dying”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
Examples of pantanal in a sentence
- Here, as on the coast, we come again to primeval forests, the 'pantanals,' of a tropical luxuriance, which, like the forests of Hylæa, owe their peculiarities to running water.1878, Otto Wilhelm Thomé, Alfred William Bennett, Text-book of Structural and Physiological Botany, page 453:
- The land is largely composed of the pantanals, the flat, wide-stretching marshes through which the Paraguay and its affluents wind.1916, Theodore Roosevelt, A Book-lover's Holidays in the Open, page 154:
- Diet seasonality and food overlap of the fish assemblage in a pantanal pond / Gisele Caroline Novakowski, Norma Segatti Hahn & Rosemara Fugi.2008, Neotropical Ichthyology: Official Journal of the Sociedade Brasileira de Ictiologia:
- Because of the Pantanals, there were no side roads and the bends were mostly gradual with no sharp turns.2014 June 2, Richard William Stoker, Bats of Prey, Balboa Press, →ISBN, page 497:
Forms of pantanal
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Origin of pantanal
Portuguese pantanal, in Bolivia and Paraguay probably via Spanish.
From Brazilian Portuguese Pantanal, from pantanal (“wetland, bog”).
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Questions about pantanal
- What does pantanal mean?
- Pantanal means a marsh (a broad, flat area with pools of water and trees) in the Pantanal region of South America.
- How do you use pantanal in a sentence?
- Here, as on the coast, we come again to primeval forests, the 'pantanals,' of a tropical luxuriance, which, like the forests of Hylæa, owe their peculiarities to running water.
- What part of speech is pantanal?
- Pantanal can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce pantanal?
- Pantanal is pronounced /ˈpɑntəˌnɑl/.
- What is the plural of pantanal?
- The plural of pantanal is pantanals.
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