Cerrado

See also: cerrado

English

Noun

Cerrado (countable and uncountable, plural Cerrados)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of cerrado.
    • 2020 November 25, Dom Phillips, “The Cerrado: how Brazil’s vital ‘water tank’ went from forest to soy fields”, in The Guardian‎[1], →ISSN:
      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.
    • 2023, Daniel R. Reichman, Progress in the Balance: Mythologies of Development in Santos, Brazil, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 68:
      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.
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