Kar‐roo″ (kȧr‐ro͞o″), n.; pl.Karroos (–ro͞oz″). One of the dry table-lands of South Africa, which often rise terracelike to considerable elevations. [Also karoo.]
The Great Karroo, orThe Karroo, a vast plateau, in Cape Colony, stretching through five degrees of longitude, at an elevation of about 3,000 feet.