as in prairie
a broad area of level or rolling treeless country
stunning pictures of the giraffes and zebras roaming the grasslands of Africa
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Recent Examples of grassland
Here are my picks: Ride across the low grasslands with a gaucho, or South American cowboy guide, at Estancia Vik.
Luz Culinary Wine Lodge, located in the fishing village of José Ignacio, sets the table for a gastronomic stay in a pine forest.
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Olivia Schellenberg, Travel + Leisure, 23 Oct. 2024
Then the general marched 70 survivors, mostly women and children, some 140 miles across the grasslands to Fort Laramie.
—Tim Madigan, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
During the dry season, the pans are flat, white, vast, and practically lunar, but when the rains start in November, the landscape shifts almost overnight, turning into a vibrant grassland.
—Nicholas Derenzo, AFAR Media, 18 Dec. 2024
By century’s end, up to 20% of all Earth’s land could experience abrupt ecosystem transformation, such as forests becoming grasslands, with attendant extinction and collapse of ecosystems.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 10 Dec. 2024
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Olivia Schellenberg, Travel + Leisure, 23 Oct. 2024
Then the general marched 70 survivors, mostly women and children, some 140 miles across the grasslands to Fort Laramie.
—Tim Madigan, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
During the dry season, the pans are flat, white, vast, and practically lunar, but when the rains start in November, the landscape shifts almost overnight, turning into a vibrant grassland.
—Nicholas Derenzo, AFAR Media, 18 Dec. 2024
By century’s end, up to 20% of all Earth’s land could experience abrupt ecosystem transformation, such as forests becoming grasslands, with attendant extinction and collapse of ecosystems.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 10 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grassland
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Thousands of years ago, southern Wisconsin transitioned from a closed-canopy oak forest to an oak savanna—in an open prairie, oaks, instead of growing straight and tall, branch too early for canoe-making.Jacqueline Kehoe, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2024
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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia CNN — Grasslands — also known as prairies, steppes, pampas or savannas — are home to 25% of the world’s population and all kinds of plants and wildlife, including elephants, rhinos and lions.Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 6 Dec. 2024
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Born 43 years ago in the high steppes of Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia—a two-and-a-half-hour drive from the Russian border—the Chinese bass Peixin Chen sings in primordial tones that set the whole hall and the listener’s rib cage humming.airmail.news, airmail.news, 7 Dec. 2024
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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia CNN — Grasslands — also known as prairies, steppes, pampas or savannas — are home to 25% of the world’s population and all kinds of plants and wildlife, including elephants, rhinos and lions.Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 6 Dec. 2024
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Suddenly the sea rises and starts to flood the plain.Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2025
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Mercury’s wrinkle-like features across the left half of the image likely formed after those lava plains solidified and the planet’s interior cooled and contracted, according to an ESA statement.Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Jan. 2025
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They are found in forests, savannas and wetlands of West Africa.Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2025
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By 2050, the entire region could be irreversibly on the path to becoming a savanna.Nemonte Nenquimo, WIRED, 29 Nov. 2024
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“Grassland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grassland. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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