karroo

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: kar=roo

CIDE DICTIONARY

karroo, n. 

 One of the dry table-lands of South Africa, which often rise terracelike to considerable elevations.  [1913 Webster]

The Great Karroo, or The Karroo, a vast plateau, in Cape Colony, stretching through five degrees of longitude, at an elevation of about 3,000 feet.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

karroo, var. of KAROO.

THESAURUS

karroo

Arabia Deserta, Death Valley, Sahara, barren, barren land, barrens, brush, bush, desert, desolation, dust bowl, heath, howling wilderness, lunar landscape, lunar waste, outback, salt flat, waste, wasteland, weary waste, wild, wilderness, wilds