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grasslands

n. (plural of grassland English)

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Grasslands (disambiguation)

Grasslands are areas where the vegetation is dominated by grasses and other herbaceous plants.

Grassland or Grasslands may also refer to:

  • Cypress Hills—Grasslands, a federal electoral district in Saskatchewan, Canada
  • Grasslands Entertainment, a Canadian television production and distribution company
  • Grasslands National Park, one of Canada's newer national parks
  • Grassland (Annapolis Junction, Maryland), listed on the NRHP in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, USA

Usage examples of "grasslands".

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.

Open grasslands still lay millions of years in the future, along with the fleet, long-legged, graceful herbivorous forms that would adapt to their open lush spaces, and the cleverer, faster carnivores that would arise to prey on them.

The grasslands lay in a deep violet haze and to the west thin flights of waterfowl were moving north before the sunset in the deep red galleries under the cloudbanks like schoolfish in a burning sea and on the foreland plain they saw vaqueros driving cattle before them through a gauze of golden dust.

Our grandmothers brought the old ways from the grasslands when we came to Ungria four generations ago.

Ships unloaded cloth and spices and precious jade trinkets for the rich beghs of the grasslands, those who cared to trade rather than rob.

Can you guide me across the grasslands to the nesting grounds of the griffins?

He shaded his eyes as he squinted westward at the riders approaching the fort through rolling grasslands that stretched out north and west to the horizon.

I need him to guide my army safely through the grasslands and lead us to the lands where we may hunt griffins and meet sorcerers.

Out in the grasslands, up in the highest lands beyond the reach of the centaur witch, winter still ruled.

They were even moving out into the grasslands, feeding off the nutlike seeds to be found there.

Even the grasslands were subtly different, great swaths of them dominated by a handful of fire-resistant species.

Forests shrank, grasslands spread, and desertification intensified once more.

Your sacred grasslands would be burned and tilled and planted with crops to trade for gold.

Somewhat to the northwest they saw the dark border of the great Arendish forest, hazy in the misty drizzle, and not far ahead the grim, gray-walled pile of a Mimbrate castle brooding down on the grasslands lying below.

Guiding the great grey gelding down the slope, she rode to the grasslands and into a grove of trees beside a rippling stream.