Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An extensive treeless grassland area of South America south of the Amazon River.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A vast treeless plain such as characterizes the region lying south of the forest-covered belt of the Amazon valley, especially in the Argentine Republic: so called in the southern part of South America.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A plain. See
pampas .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Singular form of
pampas .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The word pampa, of Araucanian origin, signifies grass plain, and justly applies to the whole region.
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Behind the great guitar of the pampa, and its 7,000-odd trees, is a love story that took a tragic turn.
Maybe Graciela Sees It From Heaven, This Huge Guitar Made of Trees Matt Moffett 2011
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One day while traveling in a plane over the pampa, Ms. Yraizoz noticed a farm that, through a fluke of topography, looked a bit like a milking pail from the air, her children say.
Maybe Graciela Sees It From Heaven, This Huge Guitar Made of Trees Matt Moffett 2011
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A fern-grass-sedge pampa covers the summit areas of the larger islands where moisture is retained in temporary pools and sphagnum moss.
Galápagos National Park & Galápagos Marine Resources Reserve, Ecuador 2009
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GENERAL LEVALLE, Argentina—Pilots often stare in disbelief when they make their first flight over this hamlet on the verdant pampa.
Maybe Graciela Sees It From Heaven, This Huge Guitar Made of Trees Matt Moffett 2011
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In the native vegetation there are from one to three zones on the lowland islands: coastal, arid (80-120 m), and transitional (100-200 m) which cover the largest area, and three to four more on mountainous islands: closed forest (200-500 m), mossy open forest and mossy scrub (500-1,000 m) and summit pampa above 1,000 m.
Galápagos National Park & Galápagos Marine Resources Reserve, Ecuador 2009
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All these people, peoples and more dominate Andes; page after page of iconic and anonymous endeavour are laid over the salt-flats, volcanoes, deserts, strangling figs and pampa as Jacobs winds south through the mountains.
Andes by Michael Jacobs Benedict Allen 2010
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As the pampa grew more civilized, a ball eventually replaced a duck.
In Soccer-Mad Argentina, the National Sport Is a Lame Duck 2010
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The pampa holds the most ferns species, although 90 different species grow throughout the Galapagos archipelago.
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The highest elevations, above 900 m, are the pampa layers within the humid zone.
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