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African tableland
Answer for the clue "African tableland ", 5 letters:
karoo
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Karoo is a semi-desert region of South Africa. Karoo may also refer to: In earth sciences : Karoo-Ferrar , a major geologic province which mostly covers South Africa and Antarctica Karoo Supergroup , a stratigraphic unit in sub-Saharan Africa Karoo ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Karroo \Kar*roo"\ (k[.a]r*r[=oo]"), n.; pl. Karroos (k[.a]r*r[=oo]z"). One of the dry table-lands of South Africa, which often rise terracelike to considerable elevations. [Also karoo .] The Great Karroo , or The Karroo , a vast plateau, in Cape Colony, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any vast prairie bordering a desert.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"barren table land in South Africa," 1789, said to be from a Hottentot word.
Usage examples of karoo.
With it she had shot snipe in the Okavango Delta, sand grouse in the Karoo, duck and geese on the great Zambezi, grouse on the highland moors, and pheasant, woodcock and partridge on some of the great English estates to which she and the ambassador had been invited.
They transported her back to the open horizons of the great Karoo, for there were the same lion-coloured earth and sepia rockscapes.
The Plains of Camdeboo and she had begun to understand just what a wondrous world the Karoo really was.
Anything over four inches of rainfall in the Karoo was considered a good year, and in such a season the springbok ewes lambed twice.
They sipped their champagne and laughed and chatted and flirted, while a flamboyant Karoo sunset lit the gaunt kopies with a ruddy glow and set the clouds on fire.
He knew what the Karoo was now, even if he had not seen a Boer roll over like a rabbit, or heard the whine of flying bullets.
II Young Hodge the Drummer never knew - Fresh from his Wessex home - The meaning of the broad Karoo, The Bush, the dusty loam, And why uprose to nightly view Strange stars amid the gloam.
They transported her back to the 63 open horizons of the great Karoo, for there were the same lion-coloured earth and sepia rockscapes.
But they built themselves houses, and they supplied the Dutch East India Company with food and water, gradually budding off little townlets, Wynberg, Stellenbosch, and pushing their settlements up the long slopes which lead to that great central plateau which extends for fifteen hundred miles from the edge of the Karoo to the Valley of the Zambesi.
On crossing the railroad De Wet turned furiously upon his pursuers, and, taking an excellent position upon a line of kopjes rising out of the huge expanse of the Karoo, he fought a stubborn rearguard action in order to give time for his convoy to get ahead.
It was also mentioned that though the Boers evacuated the barren and unprofitable desert of the Karoo, the Eastern bands which had come with Kritzinger did not follow the same course, but continued to infest the mountainous districts of the Central Colony, whence they struck again and again at the railway lines, the small towns, British patrols, or any other quarry which was within their reach and strength.
Mines, and beyond that slope begins the waterless desert, covered with a species of karoo shrub.
But to my mind the chances of our finding it in that great sea of sand and karoo scrub seemed almost infinitesimal.
So far as the eye might reach there was nothing but arid sweltering sand and karoo scrub.
The largest of these animals included an armor-plated giant ten feet long and three wide, whose only remaining legacy is a set of fossilized footprints in the Karoo, South Africa.