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PRONUNCIATION OF CAATINGA

caatinga  [kɑːˈtɪŋɡə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CAATINGA

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Caatinga is a noun.
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WHAT DOES CAATINGA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

caatinga

Caatinga

Caatinga is a type of desert vegetation, and an ecoregion characterized by this vegetation in interior northeastern Brazil. The name "Caatinga" is a Tupi word meaning "white forest" or "white vegetation". Caatinga is a xeric shrubland and thorn forest, which consists primarily of small, thorny trees that shed their leaves seasonally. Cacti, thick-stemmed plants, thorny brush, and arid-adapted grasses make up the ground layer. Many annual plants grow, flower, and die during the brief rainy season. Caatinga falls entirely within earth's Tropical zone and is one of 6 major ecoregions of Brazil, including the Amazon Basin, Pantanal, Cerrado, Caatinga, Atlantic Forest, and Pampas. It covers 850,000 km², nearly 10% of Brazil's territory. It is home to 15 million people and more than 2000 species of vascular plants, fishes, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals..

Definition of caatinga in the English dictionary

The definition of caatinga in the dictionary is a Brazilian semi-arid scrub forest.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CAATINGA


alcheringa
ˌæltʃəˈrɪŋɡə
anhinga
ænˈhɪŋɡə
barasinga
ˌbærəˈsɪŋɡə
barasingha
ˌbærəˈsɪŋɡə
befinger
bɪˈfɪŋɡə
churinga
tʃəˈrɪŋɡə
cotinga
kəˈtɪŋɡə
finger
ˈfɪŋɡə
fishfinger
ˈfɪʃˈfɪŋɡə
forefinger
ˈfɔːˌfɪŋɡə
gringa
ˈɡrɪŋɡə
ladyfinger
ˈleɪdɪˌfɪŋɡə
linga
ˈlɪŋɡə
linger
ˈlɪŋɡə
malinger
məˈlɪŋɡə
Meninga
mɪnˈɪŋɡə
myringa
məˈrɪŋɡə
seringa
səˈrɪŋɡə
syringa
sɪˈrɪŋɡə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CAATINGA

ca
ca.
ca´canny
caa
caa canny
caa the feet frae
Caaba
cab
cab rank
cab rank rule
cabal
cabala
cabaletta
cabalism
cabalist
cabalistic
cabalistical
caballer
caballero
caballine

WORDS THAT END LIKE CAATINGA

ainga
anga
bubinga
Bucaramanga
changa
conga
donga
Ganga
Geminga
kainga
longa
manga
Mpumalanga
ponga
ranga
tanga
Tauranga
tonga
Tsonga
Zamboanga

Synonyms and antonyms of caatinga in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «caatinga» into 25 languages

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Translator English - Chinese

卡廷加
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

caatinga
570 millions of speakers

English

caatinga
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

caatinga
380 millions of speakers
ar

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caatinga
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

каатинга
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

caatinga
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

caatinga
260 millions of speakers

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caatinga
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Caatinga
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

caatinga
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

カーティンガ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

caatinga
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Caatinga
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

caatinga
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

காடிங்கா
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कॅटेटाआ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

caatinga
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Caatinga
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

caatinga
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

каатинга
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

caatinga
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Caatinga
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

caatinga
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

caatinga
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

caatinga
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CAATINGA»

The term «caatinga» is regularly used and occupies the 84.073 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CAATINGA» OVER TIME

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CAATINGA»

Discover the use of caatinga in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to caatinga and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Aves da caatinga
Introdução; Como utilizar o seu guia; Caracterização da caatinga; Biodiversidade da caatinga; Aves da caatinga arbórea densa; Aves da caatinga arbórea/arbustiva aberta; Aves noturnas; Aves da caatinga antropizada; Aves das flores; ...
Dr. István Major, Rodrigo Castro, 2004
2
Poisoning By Plants, Mycotoxins, and Related Toxins
So the caatinga may show, depending on the area, any of the following aspects: arboreal, shrubby-arboreal, or shrubby. In the shrubby formations plants may be densely or sparsely distributed. However, the vegetation in some areas is ...
Franklin Riet-Correa, 2011
3
Neotropical Savannas and Seasonally Dry Forests: Plant ...
Mysanthus, a monospecific genus segregated from Phaseolus by Lewis and Delgado (1994), has been considered endemic to the caatinga (Prado, 2000). It is known only from the caatinga, except for two collections in the state of São Paulo, ...
R. Toby Pennington, James A. Ratter, 2006
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Ecophysiology of Economic Plants in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands
In a few areas salts may accumulate but this is not a general problem within the caatinga. Eiten and Goodland (1979) describe the structure of the undisturbed caatinga vegetation as a mixture of communities, consisting of low to medium tall  ...
G. E. Wickens, 1998
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The Physical Geography of South America
The sandy but fertile substrates tend to favor caatinga species (Andrade Lima, 1981). There may be nine months or more of rainless days and a few months of torrential but irregular rain, which can cause severe erosion. Several years may ...
Department of Geography University of Colorado Thomas T. Veblen Professor, Austin Kenneth R. Young Associate Professor of Geography and the Environment University of Texas, Department of Geography University of California Antony R. Orme Professor, Los Angeles, 2007
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Bones, Clones, and Biomes: The History and Geography of ...
The influence of Amazonian and Atlantic rain forests on the distributions of Caatinga mammals is less clear (de Oliveira, Gonçalves, and Bonvicino 2008; Rodrigues 2008; Silva et al. 2008). However, the contribution of forest habitats to the ...
Bruce D. Patterson, Leonora P. Costa, 2012
7
Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests
Response of caatinga vegetation to decreasing levels of canopy cover. Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira 24: 1421-6. Sick, H. (1965). A fauna dos cerrados. Arquivos de Zoologia 12: 71-93. Silva, A. Q., Silva, H. & Silva, M. A. (1988). Aspectos ...
Stephen H. Bullock, Harold A. Mooney, Ernesto Medina, 1995
8
Sustainable Forest Management and Global Climate Change: ...
'Caatinga': a Brief Description The 'caatinga' is a thornbush vegetation that occurs in a semi-arid area of the Brazilian northeast and it is basically composed of a woody shrub vegetation. The 'caatinga' does not have the exuberance of the ...
M. H. I. Dore, Ruben Guevara
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Tropical Dry Forests in the Americas: Ecology, Conservation, ...
The Brazilian semiarid region presents an area of 844,453 kmZ, covering 11% of the country with various land—cover types such as Savana, shrubby Caatinga, Caatinga trees, and high land swamps (Sampaio 1995). The name “Caatinga” is  ...
Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa, Jennifer S. Powers, Geraldo W. Fernandes, 2013
10
Current Industrial Reports: Iron and steel castings
.Data for automotive uses, construction, and utility caatinga and machinery uses are combined with other ductile iron caatinga. .Data for automotive uses, construction and utility caatinga are combined with other gray iron castings* . Shipments ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CAATINGA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term caatinga is used in the context of the following news items.
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Supplementary Data
... Atlantic Forest (E), Amazon Forest (F), Dry Forests of northern South America (G), Caatinga (H), Piedmont Dry Forests and Chiquitano (I) and ... «Am J Botany, Jun 15»
2
These Long-Suffering Animal Mothers Deserve a Day Too
Picture of scorpion carrying young on back. A scorpion mom protects the offspring riding on her back with her stinger in Caatinga, Brazil. «National Geographic, May 15»
3
Conservation and carbon storage goals collide in Brazil's Cerrado
... river basins and touches each of the country's other biomes: the Amazon, Atlantic rainforest, Pantanal swamp, and Caatinga's spiny forests. «Mongabay.com, Apr 15»
4
L'Occitane au Brésil lança linha Umbu de cuidados faciais
... é inspirado em um bioma nacional, e é todo desenvolvido com extrato de umbu, fruto típico da caatinga rico em sais minerais e vitaminas. «FFW Fashion Forward, Feb 15»
5
Manakin gets own reserves in Brazil
... habitat with other Brazilian species found nowhere else, such as Silvery-cheeked Antshrike, White-browed Antpitta, and Caatinga Antshrike. «Bird Watch, Dec 14»
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First-ever Reserves Established to Protect Brazil's Araripe Manakin
... other Brazilian species found nowhere else, such as the Silvery-cheeked Antshrike, the White-browed Antpitta, and the Caatinga Antshrike. «Surfbirds News, Dec 14»
7
Ministry of Injustice vs. Indigenous Peoples
Atlantic and Amazon Rainforests, Cerrado and Pampas (Savannah and Natural Grassland), Caatinga (Dry Thorn Bush)…, everything fits the ... «Dissident Voice, Nov 14»
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Meet Rica Edinburgh Zoo's first ever armadillo pup at one-month-old
The Caatinga dry forest, where most of these armadillos live, once covered about 11 per cent of the Brazilian territory, and that has now been ... «Daily Mail, Sep 14»
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Protecting the Amazon Includes Defending Indigenous Rights
In the first place, because in Brazil we have six biomes: the Amazon, which is the most important for the world, the Cerrado, Caatinga, Pantanal, the Atlantic ... «The Real News Network, Aug 14»
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New Population Of Critically-Endangered Grey-Breasted Parakeets …
These five birds were found in an isolated mountain above the Caatinga, and have become the third known population of these birds. «BirdChannel.com, Aug 14»

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