pantanal

plural pantanals

1. A marsh (a broad, flat area with pools of water and trees) in the Pantanal region of South America.

   Lepidosiren lives in the vast swamps (chacos and pantanals) of Rio Paraguay and Rio Amazonas.

   1912, Bashford Dean, Edmund Otis Hovey, Fritz Felix Hahn, George Herbert Girty, John Diederich Haseman, Neil E. Stevens, R. D. O. Johnson, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Vernon Freeman Marsters, William King Gregory, Hubert Dana Goodale, Notes on the Principles of Quadrupedal Locomotion and of the Mechanism of the Limbs in Hoofed Animals, page 73

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   To the west the savannahs extend as far as the affluents of the Paraguay and Madeira. Here, as on the coast, we come again to primeval forests, the 'pantanals,' of a tropical luxuriance, which, like the forests of Hylæa, owe their peculiarities to running water. To the south of these the plains of Gran-Chaco, and the woody highland of Paraguay, alternating with open grass[…]

   1878, Otto Wilhelm Thomé, Alfred William Bennett, Text-book of Structural and Physiological Botany, page 453

   The land is largely composed of the pantanals, the flat, wide-stretching marshes through which the Paraguay and its affluents wind. Where the land is low it is covered with papyrus and water-grass; if a few feet higher , with open palm forest.

   1916, Theodore Roosevelt, A Book-lover's Holidays in the Open, page 154

   Besides this, tourists are fascinated by the magic, enchantment and legends of the forests and pantanals and the natives are best indicated to narrate these stories in the authentic tone, suspense and mystery of the region.

   1993, Brazilian Communication Research Yearbook, page 48

   Diet seasonality and food overlap of the fish assemblage in a pantanal pond / Gisele Caroline Novakowski, Norma Segatti Hahn & Rosemara Fugi.

   2008, Neotropical Ichthyology: Official Journal of the Sociedade Brasileira de Ictiologia

   […] sturdy bridges. Because of the Pantanals, there were no side roads and the bends were mostly gradual with no sharp turns. When confronted with oncoming traffic, unlike Robyn, Maxine planted her foot […]

   2014 June 2, Richard William Stoker, Bats of Prey, Balboa Press, →ISBN, page 497

1. A tropical wetlands region of central South America.

   Usually flooded for much of the year, the Pantanal in recent years has been parched by a string of severe droughts that scientists have linked to deforestation and climate change.

   2024 August 27, Ana Ionova, “The World’s Largest Wetland Is Burning, and Rare Animals Are Dying”, in The New York Times, →ISSN