Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A flat grassland of tropical or subtropical regions.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plain or extensive flat area covered with a sheet of snow or ice: so first used, with the accent on the first syllable, by Spanish writers.
- noun A treeless plain: so first used in reference to American topography by Oviedo (1535), with the accent on the second syllable.
- noun In phytogeography See
grass-land .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A tract of level land covered with the vegetable growth usually found in a damp soil and warm climate, -- as grass or reeds, -- but destitute of trees.
- noun (Bot.) a West Indian name for several climbing apocyneous plants of the genus Echites.
- noun (Zoöl.) an American sparrow (
Ammodramus sandwichensis orPasserculus savanna ) of which several varieties are found on grassy plains from Alaska to the Eastern United States. - noun (Bot.) a name of two West Indian trees of the genus Citharexylum.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
tropical grassland with scatteredtrees
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The savanna is burned frequently to maintain pasturage for grazing and to keep the land open for hunting.
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The unique high altitude grassland or montane savanna is dominated by Loudetia kagerensis on the summits.
Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire 2008
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The piedmont savanna is patchy, varying according to its degree of laterization and pan-development; in places it is marshy overlying rock pavement.
Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire 2008
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The savanna is broken by gallery forests which extend up mountainside ravines between 1,000 m and 1,600 m.
Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire 2008
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A slim, graceful monkey, with long arms and legs, and a fairly flat face, the vervet is sometimes known as a savanna monkey, since it spends most of its time on or near the savanna.
How to Speak Dog Stanley Coren 2000
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South of the Cuanza River, the Zambezian component of the ecoregion comprises a mosaic of closed woodlands, grasslands and palm savanna, which is found along the lower and drier slopes of the escarpment and along the coast.
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Vegetation in the tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas and shrublands biome (also called savanna) consists of a cover of perennial grass species 1 to 2 meters (3 to 6 feet) tall with scattered drought-resistant trees that generally do not exceed 10 meters (32 feet) in height.
Terrestrial biome 2007
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The whole of the savanna was a miry and quaking bog, until the partial draining operations of the State, effected a year ago, [in 1855.]
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We next crossed a wet savanna, which is the beginning of a region still lower than we had traversed; here we crossed a rapid rivulet of exceeding cool, pleasant water, where we halted to refresh ourselves.
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I shall not soon forget the shining vistas through which we rode that day, nor the meadows which possessed all the allurement and mystery which the word "savanna" has always had with me.
The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse Hamlin Garland 1900
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