Crossword clues for savanna
savanna
- Where zebras and giraffes graze
- Treeless plain of southern U. S
- Grassland dotted with trees
- Tropical grassland
- Zebra zone
- A flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions
- Zebra's home
- Plain
- Flat grassland in tropical regions
- African grasslands
- Habitat of Tasmanian devil, evolving with limited parts lost
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.]
Savannahs are clear pieces of land without woods.
--Dampier.
Savanna flower (Bot.), a West Indian name for several climbing apocyneous plants of the genus Echites.
Savanna sparrow (Zo["o]l.), an American sparrow ( Ammodramus sandwichensis or Passerculus savanna) of which several varieties are found on grassy plains from Alaska to the Eastern United States.
Savanna wattle (Bot.), a name of two West Indian trees of the genus Citharexylum.
Wiktionary
n. A tropical grassland with scattered trees
WordNet
n. a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions [syn: savannah]
Gazetteer
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 (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 34.833229 N, 95.838768 W
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Housing Units (2000): 1790
Land area (2000): 2.608884 sq. miles (6.756979 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.093646 sq. miles (0.242541 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.702530 sq. miles (6.999520 sq. km)
FIPS code: 67821
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 42.090069 N, 90.140050 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 61074
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Headwords:
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Wikipedia
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.
Savannas maintain an open canopy despite a high tree density. It is often believed that savannas feature widely spaced, scattered trees. However, in many savannas, tree densities are higher and trees are more regularly spaced than in forests. The South American savanna types cerrado sensu stricto and cerrado dense typically have densities of trees similar to or higher than that found in South American tropical forests, with savanna ranging 800–3300 trees/ha and adjacent forests with 800–2000 trees/ha. Similarly Guinean savanna has 129 trees/ha, compared to 103 for riparian forest, while Eastern Australian sclerophyll forests have average tree densities of approximately 100 per hectare, comparable to savannas in the same region.
Savannas are also characterised by seasonal water availability, with the majority of rainfall confined to one season; they are associated with several types of biomes, and are frequently in a transitional zone between forest and desert or grassland. Savanna covers approximately 20% of the Earth's land area.
Savanna (サバンナ) are a Japanese comedy duo consisting of and . Both attended Ritsumeikan University High School and created the manzai team as a joke during their years at Ritsumeikan University, having first met in the school's judo club. They then decided to join Yoshimoto Kogyo as a professional kombi. Their act is heavily based on observational humor, and Yagi frequently being confused as the boke of the group.
Born August 4, 1974, Ide, Kyoto near Uji, Kyoto, Yagi originally had decided to become a tax official (though he had previously received a black belt in judo) when he met Takahashi and became a manzai comedian. Officially, he is the tsukkomi of the two, and he usually plays the "normal guy" in their observational humor acts. He is known for his meaningless English gags (not unlike Kazuki Ōtake of the kombi Summers), and often yells phrases such as "Spoon!", "Fork!", "I like protein! I am hercules!", "Handshake survival!", and "Tsuppari Ichiban! Chiyotaikai!", the last one referring to the favored arm-thrusting attack style of sumo ozeki (champion) Chiyotaikai Ryūji.
The boke of the group, Takahashi, was born January 28, 1976, in Kyoto. He generally plays the stranger role in their acts, and his blues-playing character, Hiroshi Inui, has become a frequent addition to their material lately, allowing the duo to advance to the semi-finals during the 2006 R-1 Grand Prix tournament. His father is a respected dentist.
While Savanna has performed over 100 observational humor acts ( neta) on stage, it is rumored that Yagi has created a usable stock of over 500.
Category:Japanese comedy duos Category:People from Kyoto Prefecture
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.