Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An area, such as a prairie or meadow, of grass or grasslike vegetation.
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- noun an area dominated by
grass orgrasslike vegetation
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- noun land where grass or grasslike vegetation grows and is the dominant form of plant life
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Examples
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He was innocent of the first problem; the rain ruined their scheduled activities at the new park, a square block of reclaimed grassland from the surrounding urban waste.
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… “There is a huge imbalance between the carbon lost by plowing up a hectare [2.47 acres] of forest or grassland from the benefit you get from biofuels.”
Global Warming and the Minefield of Unintended Consequences - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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… “There is a huge imbalance between the carbon lost by plowing up a hectare [2.47 acres] of forest or grassland from the benefit you get from biofuels.”
Global Warming and the Minefield of Unintended Consequences - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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This shrubby alpine grassland is bordered at lower elevations by montane cloud forest and elfin transitional forest.
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More and more factories in my home town in England have been demolished and returned to grassland, which is really weird - I never imagined as a youngster that I would be looking at fields and saying "I can remember when all this was factories".
Response: We don't need to de-industrialise to meet our emissions targets 2011
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Up to 150 years ago, the North Chihuahuan Desert was completely covered in grassland.
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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The south-facing side of the range receives lower rainfall, greater solar exposure and consequently a xeric vegetation type, steppic grassland, which is typical of the central Valais.
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As soon as the forest undergoes serious permanent damage from overuse, it is transformed into sparse landscape of scrub or grassland, which is useful neither as woodland nor arable land.
FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THE PATCH CULTIVATION AND SWIDDEN FARMING PRACTICES 2007
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We find only a few clusters of trees punctuating the grassland, which is almost unrelievedly open and sunny—disadvantageous for a lurk-and-lurch predator.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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We find only a few clusters of trees punctuating the grassland, which is almost unrelievedly open and sunny—disadvantageous for a lurk-and-lurch predator.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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