Kar*roo" (kȧr*r?"), n.;
pl. Karroos (-r?z"). One of the
dry table-lands of South Africa, which often rise terracelike to
considerable elevations. [Also karoo.]
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.