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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
grassland
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a woodland/wetland/grassland/marshland habitat (=a place in a wood, etc where animals and plants live or grow)
▪ The owl inhabits woodland habitats from Scotland to southern Spain.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
permanent
▪ The main cause is the expansion of farming on to permanent grassland and the widespread use of fertilisers.
▪ Its main attractions are the optimal utilisation of permanent grassland and the control of internal parasitism without resort to therapy.
▪ In winter most Golden Plover are found on coastal farmland, including the permanent grassland of the levels.
▪ The mid-grey is permanent grassland while the light areas are intensively-cultivated fields of peas, beans and other cash crops.
▪ The total cereal area is 280,000 hectares and permanent grassland covers 68% of the utilised agricultural land in the Auvergne.
▪ Total permanent grassland represented 65% of the utilised agricultural land and this proportion has changed little over the years.
rough
▪ The rate of loss of moorland and rough grassland is accelerating.
▪ Only if sheep graze a combination of rough grassland and heather moor will the grassland slowly extend at the expense of moorland.
▪ Not all of the losses of moor and rough grassland can be attributed to agricultural change.
▪ Not all of the losses of moorland and rough grassland to agricultural development are the result of surface cultivation and grass seeding.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Festuca rubra - Armeria maritima maritime grassland.
▪ In my village there also rice fields, grassland and wetland.
▪ It's found in lowland areas on chalk grassland and among sand dunes.
▪ Leaving the grassland behind, the terrain became more barren with cliffs and rocks tumbling down into the sea.
▪ Material also available on animal welfare, patterns of food consumption and grassland utilisation.
▪ Not all of the losses of moorland and rough grassland to agricultural development are the result of surface cultivation and grass seeding.
▪ The Vredo range of shallow grassland injectors comprises four models.
▪ There were a few areas of welcome grassland like the one that rose ahead of him almost as soon as he left the Park behind.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
grassland

1680s, from grass + land (n.).

Wiktionary
grassland

n. An area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation.

WordNet
grassland

n. land where grass or grasslike vegetation grows and is the dominant form of plant life

Wikipedia
Grassland

'''Grasslands ''' are areas where the vegetation is dominated by grasses ( Poaceae), however sedge ( Cyperaceae) and rush ( Juncaceae) families can also be found. Grasslands occur naturally on all continents except Antarctica. Grasslands are found in most ecoregions of the Earth. For example, there are five terrestrial ecoregion classifications (subdivisions) of the temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome ( ecosystem), which is one of eight terrestrial ecozones of the Earth's surface.

Grassland (Annapolis Junction, Maryland)

Grassland is a historic house at Annapolis Junction, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. It was built in 1853, and is a three-part brick structure constructed in a telescoping manner. Other structures on the property are the one-story frame slave house with brick-nogged walls, a small stone smokehouse, the remains of a summer kitchen, and a frame harness shed, storage shed, and the ruins of a bank barn. The outbuildings are known to have been erected between 1852 and 1854 by the plantation slaves.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

Grassland (disambiguation)

Grassland or Grasslands may refer to:

  • Grassland, vegetation and landscape type

or it may refer to specific places:

in Canada
  • Grassland, Alberta, hamlet in northern Alberta

in the United States (by state)

  • Grassland, Kentucky, an unincorporated community in Edmonoson County, Kentucky
  • Grasslands (Finchville, Kentucky), listed on the NRHP in Shelby County, Kentucky
  • Grassland (Annapolis Junction, Maryland), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
  • Grasslands, a neighborhood in Columbia, Missouri, just west of the University of Missouri campus
  • Grassland Farm, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Bedford County, Tennessee
  • Grassland, Texas

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.