karoo

Originates from the Khoikhoi word karo (meaning dry, and hard)

• IPA^(key): /kəˈru/

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karoo (plural karoos)

1. Any vast prairie bordering a desert.
2. (South Africa) Any of the composite bushes typical of the Karoo.
   • 1901 July 5, “Domestication of the Eland”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record‎, volume 4, number 9, page 273:

     The herd is kept in an enclosure with wire fence about 7 feet high […] They eat grass and karoo, but prefer bush of every kind, even eating the bitter aloe.

• karoo in Dictionary of South African English

• koaro

From French carreau.

• IPA^(key): [kaˈroo]
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• Rhymes: -oo
• Hyphenation: ka‧ro‧o

karoo (accusative singular karoon, plural karooj, accusative plural karoojn)

1. (card games) The suit of diamonds, marked with the symbol ♦.

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