Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913
Karroo
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, or The Karroo, a vast plateau, in Cape Colony, stretching through five degrees of longitude, at an elevation of about 3,000 feet.