Definitions for Karoo

Karoo Ka·roo

Spelling: [kuh-roo]
IPA: /kəˈru/

Karoo is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 38 anagrams from letters in Karoo (akoor).

Definitions for Karoo

noun

  1. a vast plateau in the Republic of South Africa, in Cape of Good Hope province. 100,000 sq. mi. (260,000 sq. km); 3000–4000 feet (900–1200 meters) above sea level.
  2. (lowercase) an arid South African tableland with red clay soil.

Origin of Karoo

Afrikaans kar(r)oo Khoikhoi; compare Xhaeruh, Phaeruh place name recorded in 1689, Nama garo parched, dry, arid, !garo-b desolate waste

Examples for Karoo

For in their thoughts, also, was the Karoo they had lately crossed with so much difficulty and danger.

On the Karoo, just crossed, wild animals were so scarce and shy, that with all the skill of their hunters the larder had run low.

Travelling, even with the variety of emotion which the Karoo excites, is no great comfort in South Africa.

To be reduced to dependence on Karoo grass was a sad fate for the poor quadrupeds.

The stretches of the Karoo are past, and breakfast at De Aar is in sight.

We wish our father hadn't brought us to town, and we were out on the Karoo.

We will swap the veldt and the parched Karoo,For the plain and ranges clear.

Not strange, then, their travelling by night, as by day; for it was life or death to them to get across the Karoo.

Such a picture is often presented upon the Karoo plains of Southern Africa.

Adding to their spectral appearance were the long, withered grass-tufts and Karoo bushes, white as if coated with hoar frost.

Word Value for Karoo
Scrable

9

Words with friends

9

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