paramo
/ˈparəməʊ
/noun (plural paramos)
A high treeless plateau in tropical South America.The treeless regions adjacent to the cold zone usually are referred to as paramos (high plains), above which begin the nevados (snowcapped peaks)....
- The team trekked over 96 km and ascended a total of 3, 000m through rainforest, cloud forest and paramo.
Origin
Spanish and Portuguese, from Latin paramus.
- excrete
- excreter
- excretion
- excretive
- excretory
- excruciate
- excruciating
- excruciatingly
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- tubercle
- tubercle bacillus
- tubercle bacterium
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- tubercular
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