Land where grass or grasslike vegetation grows and is the dominant form of plant life

Usage examples of grassland.

To the west a mile away ran a wire fence strung from pole to pole like a bad suture across the gray grasslands and beyond that a small band of antelope all of whom were watching them.

Scythian camp onto the grasslands, where they were able to secure a Bactrian gelding with an empty saddle and trailing bridle leathers.

The grasslands around us were turning yellow and brown from heat and drought, but Daphnia was watered by canals.

Thirty-seven cardinals rode horseback along with the Pope while another twenty-four bounced along in the beds of wagons dragged across the roadless grasslands by mules.

The stately disarray of lodgepole pine, Engelmann spruce, and alpine fir yielded to the rolling grasslands of Hayden Valley.

Nearby, grasslands led into a fenced-off area of sandy slopes filled with marri gums, banksia and prickly bark or coastal blackbutt.

The girls were still in the coastal heathlands among scattered tall shrubs and low trees, having passed through the tall trees and open grasslands of the marri woodlands.

Dancers escorted the visitors from Sarmennyn to some new huts specially raised for the meeting of the tribes and beyond the huts, on the grassland to the north of the settlement, there was a throng of shelters for the folk who had come to witness the meeting.

I saw that morning: redwood, oak and madrone standing brilliantly outlined against a deep blue sky, meadows and grasslands teaming with field mice and other rodents, redtailed hawks circling overhead.

They had been two days in the hills and needed to rest their mounts before journeying over the grasslands to Malacs Cross.

Jim told her, and she watched the distant figures of the surviving Nguni dwindle into the golden grassland, and disappear at last over the fold of the ground.

Just as they came out into the grassland again, Piro stopped them with a warning cry.

Herds of dun-coloured reedbuck lived on the grassland under the tall trees.

Once we were beyond the Ituri Forest, with its lovely little Pygmy exhibits, we got on the Ubangi-Shari Highway, heading on north into the ever-dryer grasslands of the Sudan and the Sahelian subdesert.

They marched over open grassland, where trees clustered beside small streams, at quite a brisk pace, with Scales steadily crawling behind, and by evening they were beginning to see mountains in the distance ahead.