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Definition of puna in English English dictionary
- An alpine biological community in the central portion of the Andes in which short, coarse grass supports a Native American population
- The icy wind that blows here
- {i} high cold plateau (as in the Andes); mountain sickness, altitude sickness, difficulty breathing caused by the thin mountain air
- A cold arid table-land, as in the Andes of Peru
- Puna tinamou
- A tinamou, Tinamotis pentlandii
- Puna tinamous
- plural form of Puna tinamou
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Etymology
[ 'pü-n& ] (noun.) 1613. American Spanish, from Quechua.Resimler
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