Definitions for karoo
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1. karoonoun

   Any vast prairie bordering a desert.

2. Karoonoun

   The vast plain in South Africa that borders the Kalahari Desert.

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1. Karoo

   The Karoo ( kə-ROO-ə; from the Afrikaans borrowing of the South Khoekhoe !Orakobab or Khoemana word ǃ’Aukarob "Hardveld") is a semi-desert natural region of South Africa. No exact definition of what constitutes the Karoo is available, so its extent is also not precisely defined. The Karoo is partly defined by its topography, geology and climate, and above all, its low rainfall, arid air, cloudless skies, and extremes of heat and cold. The Karoo also hosted a well-preserved ecosystem hundreds of million years ago which is now represented by many fossils.The ǃ’Aukarob formed an almost impenetrable barrier to the interior from Cape Town, and the early adventurers, explorers, hunters, and travelers on the way to the Highveld unanimously denounced it as a frightening place of great heat, great frosts, great floods, and great droughts. Today, it is still a place of great heat and frosts, and an annual rainfall of between 50 and 250 mm, though on some of the mountains it can be 250 to 500 mm higher than on the plains. However, underground water is found throughout the Karoo, which can be tapped by boreholes, making permanent settlements and sheep farming possible.The xerophytic vegetation consists of aloes, mesembryanthemums, crassulas, euphorbias, stapelias, and desert ephemerals, spaced 50 cm or more apart, and becoming very sparse going northwards into Bushmanland and, from there, into the Kalahari Desert. The driest region of the Karoo, however, is its southwestern corner, between the Great Escarpment and the Cederberg-Skurweberg mountain ranges, called the Tankwa Karoo, which receives only 75 mm of rain annually. The eastern and north-eastern Karoo are often covered by large patches of grassland. The typical Karoo vegetation used to support large game, sometimes in vast herds.Today, sheep thrive on the xerophytes, though each sheep requires about 4 ha of grazing to sustain itself.

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1. Karoo

   The Karoo is a semi-desert natural region of South Africa. It consists of two closely related ecoregions – the Nama Karoo, which has mostly winter rainfall, and the Succulent Karoo which has predominantly summer rain. The Nama Karoo has three main sub-regions – the Upper Karoo in the north – which is divided from the Great Karoo in the middle by the Great Escarpment thus the Upper Karoo rivers flow northwards into the Orange River – and the Little Karoo in the south. The western section is the Succulent Karoo, situated in a winter rainfall region near the Atlantic coast. In geological terms the Karoo Supergroup refers to an extensive and geologically recent sequence of sedimentary and igneous rocks, which is flanked to the south by the Cape Supergroup, and to the north by the more ancient Witwatersrand Supergroup. It covers two-thirds of South Africa and extends in places to 8,000 m below the land surface, constituting an immense volume of rocks which was formed, geologically speaking, in a short period of time.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of karoo in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of karoo in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of karoo in a Sentence

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   It's impressive that, with just a single night of observations, South Africa.The astronomers've already found a record-breaking megamaser, it shows just how good Karoo Array Telescope is.

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References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Karoo
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karoo
3. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=karoo