savanna – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
savanna
n.
plain covered with coarse grasses and characterized by seasonal rainfall
Savanna
A
savanna or
savannah is a
grassland ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the
canopy does not close. The open canopy allows sufficient light to reach the ground to support an unbroken
herbaceous layer consisting primarily of grasses.
savanna
Noun
1. a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions
(synonym) savannah
(hypernym) grassland
Savanna
(n.)
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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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savanna
Synonyms and related words:
alkali flat, alluvial plain, basin, bottomland, bushveld, campo, champaign, champaign country, coastal plain, delta, desert, down, downs, fell, flat, flat country, flatland, flats, grass, grass veld, grassland, grazing, haugh, haughland, heath, lande, lea, level, llano, lowland, lowlands, lunar mare, mare, mead, meadow, meadow land, mesa, mesilla, moor, moorland, open country, pampa, pampas, park, pasturage, pasture, pasture land, peneplain, plain, plains, plateau, playa, prairie, range, salt flat, salt marsh, salt pan, sebkha, steppe, steppeland, swale, table, tableland, tree veld, tundra, upland, vega, veld, weald, wide-open spaces, wold
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
