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savanna

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions [syn: savannah ]

Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 730 Housing Units (2000): 354 Land area (2000): 1.400910 sq. miles (3.628340 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.009146 sq. miles (0.023688 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.410056 sq. miles (3.652028 sq. km) FIPS code: 65600 Located within: Oklahoma ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Savanna \Sa*van"na\, n. [Of American Indian origin; cf. Sp. sabana, F. savane.] 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. [Spelt also savannah ...

Usage examples of savanna.

Two hours later, past the Skaw and across the South Savanna, Schaine saw her home.

Alleghanies to the bare peaks of the Rocky Mountains--a region of savannas and forests, sun-cracked deserts, and grassy prairies, watered by a thousand rivers, ranged by a thousand warlike tribes.

An enormous lioness, twice as large as any feline who would populate savannas far to the south in a much later age, had been stalking the herd.

Yet when he zoomed over the savanna where Boling's planes had been, the craft were gone.

When his sense of distance and timing assured him that he was approaching the savanna where Boling had his base, he moved more slowly, and purposively.

Four-legged and camellike, the Imperial walkers--All Terrain Armored Transports--strode from their smoldering landing sites and marched in hulking formation across the savanna.

He'd moved along the east side of this savanna, which looked like it was probably a sinkhole lake that had emptied out, then moved rapidly west, then to the north.

The Forelands, the Hills of Recall, the South Stage, the gorges and valleys, the savannas, the streams and forests were faithfully depicted.

We'll be out of the jungle by then and into open savanna, and we'll nde hell for leather for another twenty-five or thirty kloms.

Savanna TeaGarden being her puppy, all one hundred forty pounds of Irish wolfhound puppy.

This speculative leap she made partly by studying closely how different cooperative economics was from capitalism, and partly by taking an even larger metahistorical perspective, and identifying a broad general movement in history which commentators called her Big Seesaw, a movement from the deep residuals of the dominance hierarchies of our primate ancestors on the savanna, toward the very slow, uncertain, difficult, unpredetermined, free emergence of a pure harmony and equality which would then characterize the very truest democracy.

Where the walls were exposed, black and red ochre paintings from some ancient artist transformed the smooth, rippled stone into multi-layered vistas - savannas where transparent beasts roamed.

The hills to either side were low and smooth, open savanna studded with round-topped trees, huge valley oak lower down and black oak on the summits.