várzean.
/ˈvɑːzɪə/ In Brazil, (an area of) low-lying, flat land which is subject to periodical flooding.
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > land near river > [adjective] > flooded
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1911 P. Denis Brazil xv. 358 A few fazendeiros raise their cattle in the prairies of the varzeas—the recent alluvial flats of the Lower Amazon.
1942 T. 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.
1978 Nature 26 Oct. 685/1 The fertile várzea regions which receive their nutrients from annual flooding.
1989 Sci. 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.
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