Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cerrado

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.01 in modern English

Syllables: cer-ra-do
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A type of tropical savanna biome found in much of central Brazil and parts of Paraguay.

Uncountable

noun

A region with this biome.

Countable

noun

Alternative letter-case form of cerrado.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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."
"Nearly half (44%) of the Cerrado’s native vegetation, which includes scrubland, grasslands and forests, is already used for agriculture, the MapBiomas monitoring project calculates."
"The Cerrado region now provides 54 percent of all soybeans harvested in Brazil, 28 percent of the country's corn, and 59 percent of its coffee."

Etymology

From Portuguese cerrado (literally “shut, thick”), from cerrar (“to shut”).

Origin

Source language: Portuguese

Word Breakdown

Root: cerrado

Usage

Inflected Forms

cerrados (plural)

Questions

What does cerrado mean?: A type of tropical savanna biome found in much of central Brazil and parts of Paraguay.
Where does cerrado come from?: It is traced to Portuguese.

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