Karoo meaning

kə-ro͝o'
An arid plateau of southern Africa.
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A semiarid plateau. The most well-known karoos cover nearly 400,000 sq km (156,000 sq mi) of southern Africa. Karoos are terrace shaped and characterized by low scrub vegetation.
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Any vast prairie bordering a desert.
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The vast plain in South Africa that borders the Kalahari Desert.
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Origin of karoo

Afrikaans from Nama !garo-b veld, grazing land

Sentence Examples

  • Bryden, Kloof and Karoo; sport, legend and natural history in Cape Colony (London, 1889); South African Education Yearbook (Cape Colony edition, Cape Town, 1906 et seq.).

  • We then made a stop in an area of rocky ground and scattered acacias where we got excellent views of two Karoo Long-billed Larks.

  • The Karoo basin sits to the NE, inboard of the CFB.

  • The column swung out into the great dry Karoo prairie.

  • This is in the karoo, flat scrubland with the Asbestos Mountains in the distance.

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