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mandacaru

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A cactus, Cereus jamacaru, native to central and eastern Brazil.

Equivalents

Portuguêsmandacaru

Examples

“The thought of vengeance helped him survive⟳ the weeks he spent wandering aimlessly about a desert wasteland bristling with mandacarus.”
“But the rest⟳ of her body shivered, mandacaru cactus thorns penetrated the flesh that had been half-eaten away by the disease.”
“But a tree—if I can call⟳ it that—that draws my attention is the mandacaru, a columnar cactus native to northeastern Brazil.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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