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‖ várzea, n.|ˈvaːzɪə|
[Pg., lit. ‘meadow’, ‘plain’.]
In Brazil, (an area of) low-lying, flat land which is subject to periodical flooding.
1911P. Denis Brazil xv. 358 A few fazendeiros raise their cattle in the prairies of the varzeas—the recent alluvial flats of the Lower Amazon. 1942T. L. Smith Diary 19 Dec. in Brazil: People & Inst. (1946) iv. 123 As we moved farther south we passed through an occasional várzea, or bottom, where considerable cane is grown. 1978Nature 26 Oct. 685/1 The fertile várzea regions which receive their nutrients from annual flooding. 1989Sci. Amer. May 73/2 Absy cored five varzea lakes (which are filled by rivers during the wettest seasons and then are abandoned to evaporate slowly in the driest seasons) from different watersheds near Manaus. |