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paramo

paramo noun: a treeless grassland ecosystem covering extensive high areas of equatorial mountains, especially in South America.

Noun

paramo (plural paramos)

  1. A treeless grassland ecosystem covering extensive high areas of equatorial mountains, especially in South America.

Proper noun capitalized: Paramo

Paramo (plural Paramos)

  1. A surname.

Forms of paramo

Noun
pluralparamos
Proper noun
pluralParamos

Origin of paramo

Borrowed from Spanish páramo.

Words formed from paramo

Questions about paramo

What does paramo mean?
Paramo means a treeless grassland ecosystem covering extensive high areas of equatorial mountains, especially in South America.
What part of speech is paramo?
Paramo can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of paramo?
The plural of paramo is paramos.

Words near paramo in the dictionary

  1. paramitomes
  2. paramixovirus
  3. paramnesia
  4. paramnesias
  5. paramnesic
  6. paramo
  7. paramodulant
  8. paramodulants
  9. paramodular
  10. paramodulation
  11. paramodulations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paramo (page history and authors); Paramo (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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