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cerrado^¹

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

noun cerrados · Cerrado

uncountable A type of tropical savanna biome found in much of central Brazil and parts of Paraguay.
capitalized, countable, often A region with this biome. 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.

Cerrado^²

noun Cerrados

countable, uncountable Alternative letter-case form of cerrado 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.

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@misc{cerrado_2026,
  title = {cerrado},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cerrado},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}