Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the Peruvian Andes, nearly the same as
paramo . - noun Mountain-sickness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A cold arid table-land, as in the Andes of Peru.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun Maihueniopsis
- proper noun Alternative form of
puna . - proper noun A district in the east-southeast portion of the Island of
Hawai . - proper noun An island off the coast of southern Ecuador.
- proper noun Altiplano, a region that covers part of Bolivia, Peru, and the northern end of Argentina and Chile.
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Examples
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The Puna is a cold, arid region in the Argentinean Andes, and indeed this early work (composed at age 18) invokes still and windy heights.
Rodney Punt: World Premiere by Peter Golub at Chamber Music Palisades Rodney Punt 2010
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The Puna is a cold, arid region in the Argentinean Andes, and indeed this early work (composed at age 18) invokes still and windy heights.
Rodney Punt: World Premiere by Peter Golub at Chamber Music Palisades Rodney Punt 2010
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The Puna is a cold, arid region in the Argentinean Andes, and indeed this early work (composed at age 18) invokes still and windy heights.
Rodney Punt: World Premiere by Peter Golub at Chamber Music Palisades Rodney Punt 2010
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The Puna is a cold, arid region in the Argentinean Andes, and indeed this early work (composed at age 18) invokes still and windy heights.
Rodney Punt: World Premiere by Peter Golub at Chamber Music Palisades Rodney Punt 2010
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The Puna is a cold, arid region in the Argentinean Andes, and indeed this early work (composed at age 18) invokes still and windy heights.
Rodney Punt: World Premiere by Peter Golub at Chamber Music Palisades Rodney Punt 2010
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The Puna is a cold, arid region in the Argentinean Andes, and indeed this early work (composed at age 18) invokes still and windy heights.
Rodney Punt: World Premiere by Peter Golub at Chamber Music Palisades Rodney Punt 2010
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Hilo, where Dad had two houses, one at the beach, or the three of us used to go down to our place in Puna, and that meant canoes and boats and fishing and swimming.
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The Puna is a cold, arid region in the Argentinean Andes, and indeed this early work composed at age 18 invokes still and windy heights.
Rodney Punt: World Premiere by Peter Golub at Chamber Music Palisades Rodney Punt 2010
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The Puna is a cold, arid region in the Argentinean Andes, and indeed this early work composed at age 18 invokes still and windy heights.
Rodney Punt: World Premiere by Peter Golub at Chamber Music Palisades Rodney Punt 2010
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We were now traversing that part of the Cordilleras called the Puna, a region of level heights, some fourteen thousand feet above the sea; nearly the only vegetation being a short, dark yellow grass, scarcely a tree or a shrub to be seen, except cacti, gentiana, and a few other flowering plants.
Manco, the Peruvian Chief An Englishman's Adventures in the Country of the Incas William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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