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extrema vegetación

English translation: lush/luxuriant vegetation

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Spanish term or phrase:extrema vegetación
English translation:lush/luxuriant vegetation
Entered by: Yvonne Gallagher

22:50 Feb 10, 2013
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Science - Geography
Spanish term or phrase: extrema vegetación
This is actually from a text by a contemporary Argentine critic; the references to Marco Polo and Khan are from Italo Calvino's Insible Cities:

No quiere preguntar a Marco Polo por las orillas ni está interesado en lo que transita por el puente y no puede hacerse cargo del «efecto borde» que el puente, más allá de sus piedras, estructuras y arcos, produce: la ciudad y el campo, el bosque y la pradera, la extrema vegetación y el desierto

Is this "dense vegetation"? Thanks
Wendy Gosselin
Argentina
Local time: 11:11
lush/luxuriant vegetation
Explanation:
probably, in contrast to the desert

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Note added at 15 days (2013-02-26 13:04:08 GMT) Post-grading
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glad to help
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Yvonne Gallagher
Ireland
Local time: 15:11
Grading comment
thanks
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +1lush/luxuriant vegetation
Yvonne Gallagher
4exorbitant vegetation / exorbitant greenery
Paula Sepúlveda (X)
3abundant greenery
Wendy Streitparth


  

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11 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
abundant greenery


Explanation:
As a contrast

Wendy Streitparth
Germany
Local time: 16:11
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 8
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1 day 17 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
exorbitant vegetation / exorbitant greenery


Explanation:
Creo que exorbitant transmite bien el contraste entre el verde y el desierto.

Paula Sepúlveda (X)
Spain
Local time: 16:11
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 4
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46 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
lush/luxuriant vegetation


Explanation:
probably, in contrast to the desert

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Note added at 15 days (2013-02-26 13:04:08 GMT) Post-grading
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glad to help

Yvonne Gallagher
Ireland
Local time: 15:11
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 12
Grading comment
thanks

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Daltry Gárate: lush vegetation
4 hrs
  -> thanks Daltry:-)
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