Lexicographical Neighbors of Capoeiras
Literary usage of Capoeiras
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1854)
"... and in the marshy campos near San- tarem, in the capoeiras at Barra do Eio
Negro, and in the capoeiras and Caatingas of the Eio ..."
2. Brazil and the Brazilians, Portrayed in Historical and Descriptive Sketches by Daniel Parish Kidder, James Cooley Fletcher (1857)
"... after eight o'clock, an individual named Mauricio was attacked by a band of
capoeiras* who fell upon him with clubs, striking him upon the forehead, ..."
3. Plant-geography Upon a Physiological Basis by Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1903)
"... and in the young woods (capoeiras of the Brazilians) which in rainy districts
speedily cover abandoned plantations or restock ruined virgin forest. ..."
4. The Earth and Its Inhabitants by Elisée Reclus (1895)
"... to take the name of campos—broad expanses under grasses or low plants contrasting
with the primeval forests and capoeiras or thickets of second growth. ..."
5. Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon & Andes: Being Records of Travel on the by Richard Spruce, Alfred Russel Wallace (1908)
"CAJU ( = MEREY, Venez.). Anacardium occidentale. Cashew nut. capoeiras. Second growth
woods, on deserted farms, etc., in virgin forest. ..."
6. Thayer Expedition by Charles Frederick Hartt (1870)
"They have much more the appearance of a weak second growth (capoeiras) than of
a virgin forest. All those plants which, to the practised eye of the ..."
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