sauso

English

Noun

sauso (countable and uncountable, plural sausos)

1. (obsolete) A South American shrub known for forming thick hedges along river banks.
   • 1819, “Forest of South America”, in The Fireside magazine; or, Monthly entertainer, volume 1:

     The large quadrupeds of those regions, the tigers, tapirs, and pecaris, have made openings in the hedge of sausos which we have just described.

   • 1850, The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review:

     When they are disturbed by a passing Indian canoe, and are about to retreat into the forest, they do not attempt to rush violently through these hedges of sauso, but proceed deliberately along the bank, between the hedge and the river, affording the traveller the gratification of watching their motions for sometimes four or five hundred paces, until they disappear at the nearest opening.

   • 1881, Hermann Joseph Klein, Land, sea and sky; or, Wonders of life and nature:

     […] it never attempts to break through the dense thorny growth of the sauso wall, but trots slowly away between the wall and the river, and disappears up the nearest opening.

   • 1879, The Story of the Life and Travels of Alexander Von Humboldt:

     Where the sauso receded some slight distance inland, the sandy bank was covered with crocodiles, in parties of eight or ten, lying motionless, and with open jaws, basking in the sun.

   • 1883, Achilles Daunt, Frank Redcliffe, page 115:

     A little farther on the woods retired from the banks, leaving scattered palms standing singly here and there, from which depended fantastic drapery waving in the breeze, their roots hidden among a thick growth of sauso plants, and their every branch relieved distinctly against the bright moonlit sky.

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• Sousa

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Latvian

Adjective

sauso

1. (deprecated template usage) vocative singular masculine form of sausais
2. (deprecated template usage) accusative singular masculine form of sausais
3. (deprecated template usage) instrumental singular masculine form of sausais
4. (deprecated template usage) genitive plural masculine form of sausais
5. (deprecated template usage) vocative singular feminine form of sausais
6. (deprecated template usage) accusative singular feminine form of sausais
7. (deprecated template usage) instrumental singular feminine form of sausais
8. (deprecated template usage) genitive plural feminine form of sausais