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- noun Plural form of
savanna .
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Examples
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Beyond these edaphic savannas is a wide plain covered with lowland forest.
Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire 2008
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Grassy clearings that are sprinkled with mature but stunted trees are called savannas, oak barrens, or pine barrens.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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Grassy clearings that are sprinkled with mature but stunted trees are called savannas, oak barrens, or pine barrens.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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Grassy clearings that are sprinkled with mature but stunted trees are called savannas, oak barrens, or pine barrens.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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Some of the native mammals in the savannas are the pampas deer (Ozotoceros bezoarticus), Guazauvirá deer (Mazama gouazoubira) and capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris).
Uruguayan savanna 2007
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I have been measuring the carbon uptake in African savannas, which is one of the land "sinks".
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According to the release, European explorers reported open 'savannas' in the Carolina Piedmont as early as
TradingMarkets 2010
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“Stone Road Alvar” contains on of the best alvar and oak savannas on the island and comprises an ecosystem of global significance.
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An alvar is a unique ecosystem of grasslands, savannas and sparse vegetation growing in very shallow soil over flat limestone.
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"Ah, savannas," he said with a sigh the other night, "the grassy plains."
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