cerrado

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English

Extent of cerrado.
Typical cerrado landscape.

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Noun

cerrado (countable and uncountable, plural cerrados)

  1. (biogeography, uncountable) A type of tropical savanna biome found in much of central Brazil and parts of Paraguay.
  2. (biogeography, countable, often capitalized) A region with this biome.
    • 1993 July 15, Richard Critchfield, “For Green Revolutionaries, A Latin American Triumph”, in International Herald Tribune‎:
      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.

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Anagrams

Galician

Participle

cerrado (feminine cerrada, masculine plural cerrados, feminine plural cerradas)

  1. past participle of cerrar

Portuguese

Etymology

cerrar +‎ -ado

Pronunciation

 

Adjective

cerrado (feminine cerrada, masculine plural cerrados, feminine plural cerradas)

  1. closed, shut
  2. thick, dense

Noun

cerrado m (plural cerrados)

  1. cerrado (tropical savanna biome)
  2. a region with this biome
  3. a biome similar to it, such as scrub

Participle

cerrado (feminine cerrada, masculine plural cerrados, feminine plural cerradas)

  1. past participle of cerrar

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Spanish

Etymology

Past participle of cerrar.

Pronunciation

Adjective

cerrado (feminine cerrada, masculine plural cerrados, feminine plural cerradas)

  1. shut, closed
    El baúl está cerrado.
    The trunk is shut.
    Gracias por mantener la boca cerrada.
    Thanks for keeping your mouth shut.
  2. closed off (personality trait)

Derived terms

Noun

cerrado m (plural cerrados)

  1. Synonym of cercado

Participle

cerrado (feminine cerrada, masculine plural cerrados, feminine plural cerradas)

  1. past participle of cerrar

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