campo
KAHM-poh
Open grassland or savanna, especially in South America — the vast, treeless or lightly treed plains of Brazil's interior. The cerrado (wooded savanna) and campo limpo (clean grassland) together form one of the most biodiverse ecosystems in the tropics. The word names openness — land without trees, land you can see across.
Etymology
Spanish and Portuguese, from Latin campus, a field, a plain.
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