caatinga

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese caatinga, from Old Tupi ka'atinga.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kɑːˈtɪŋɡə/

Noun

caatinga (plural caatingas)

  1. A sparse, thorny wooded area of northeastern Brazil containing drought-resistant trees.
    • 1984, Helen R. Lane, translating Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society 2012, p. 187:
      He then goes on his way at a steady pace that does not tire him, climbing up slopes or down ravines, traversing scrubland caatinga or stony ground.
    • 2000, David Lewis Lentz, Imperfect Balance: Landscape Transformations in the Precolumbian Americas, page 426:
      The geological substrate of the caatinga is severely eroded crystalline bedrock of the Precambrian Brazilian Shield and Paleozoic and Mesozoic sedimentary basins.

Translations

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Tupi ka'atinga.

Pronunciation
 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ka.aˈt͡ʃĩ.ɡɐ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ka.aˈt͡ʃĩ.ɡa/

Noun

caatinga f (plural caatingas)

  1. caatinga (sparse, thorny wooded area of northeastern Brazil)
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