cerrado

plural cerrados · alternative Cerrado

1. uncountablebiogeographyA type of tropical savanna biome found in much of central Brazil and parts of Paraguay.
2. capitalizedcountableoftenbiogeographyA 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.

   1993 July 15, Richard Critchfield, “For Green Revolutionaries, A Latin American Triumph”, in International Herald Tribune

plural Cerrados

1. countableuncountableAlternative letter-case form of cerrado.

   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.

   2023, Daniel R. Reichman, Progress in the Balance: Mythologies of Development in Santos, Brazil, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 68

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   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.

   2020 November 25, Dom Phillips, “The Cerrado: how Brazil’s vital ‘water tank’ went from forest to soy fields”, in The Guardian, →ISSN