caatinga

Noun

1. A sparse, thorny wooded biome of northeastern Brazil containing drought-resistant trees.
   • He then goes on his way at a steady pace that does not tire him, climbing up slopes or down ravines, traversing scrubland caatinga or stony ground. - 1984, Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society,...
   • The geological substrate of the caatinga is severely eroded crystalline bedrock of the Precambrian Brazilian Shield and Paleozoic and Mesozoic sedimentary basins. - 2000, David Lewis Lentz, Imperfect Balance: Landscape...