Definitions for paramo

paramo par·a·mo

Spelling: [par-uh-moh, pahr-uh-]
IPA: /ˈpær əˌmoʊ, ˈpɑr ə-/

Paramo is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 95 anagrams from letters in paramo (aamopr).

Definitions for paramo

noun

  1. a high, cold plateau of South America.

Origin of paramo

1750-60; American Spanish; Spanish páramo barren plain; presumably of pre-Latin orig.

Examples for paramo

paramo, the name given to an elevated track of desert on the Andes.

All writers but one agree with paramo on the subject of the establishment of the Inquisition in Portugal.

After the account I had heard from the doctor, I begged of Kanimapo that he would not conduct us through a paramo.

But to remain in a paramo during the night, even though thus protected, is often a painful ordeal.

paramo (a desert) is the treeless, uninhabited, uncultivated rolling steppes just below the snow-limit.

The peasants living on the paramo, although lightly clad, did not seem to be affected by the cold.

Between Cotopaxi and Sincholagua are numerous conical hills covering the paramo, reminding one of the mud volcanoes of Jorullo.

We never made any attempt to enumerate the divers species of palms that were ever in view from the paramo to the ocean.

“We must be prepared to push rapidly across the paramo,” observed Padillo.

It was not strange, then, that they should give exaggerated accounts of the cold of the paramo or of the suffering it induces.

Word Value for paramo
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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