campo
nounEtymology From Spanish campo and/or Portuguese campo. Doublet of camp and campus.
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A field or plain in a Spanish- or Portuguese-speaking area.
- [...], from the bare table-land of Mexico, and their great scarcity on the open campos of the interior of Brasil.1853, The Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Zoology, Botany, and Geology, page 468:
- The name Serlao, meaning originally the interior as distinguished from the maritime country, has come to be applied to dry, hilly, and stony districts of the campos only suited for pasture. To the agricultural coast belt of the eastern provinces [...]1890, The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, page 226:
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- The vegetation of this part of Brazil is characteristic of the campos (plains).1892, Almont Barnes, Report on the Agriculture of South America: With Maps and Latest Statistics of Trade, page 78:
- Characteristically, the campos of Brazil show scattered woody vegetation. Open grasslands are interlarded between various types of woodland pasture in a way impossible to indicate on a small-scale map, [...]1968, Roy Nash, The Conquest of Brazil, Biblo & Tannen Publishers, →ISBN, page 74: