as in prairie
a broad area of level or rolling treeless country
stunning pictures of the giraffes and zebras roaming the grasslands of Africa
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Recent Examples of grassland
Each color represents a different aspect of the landscape—greens are mostly rainforest, reds are forested floodplains and wetlands, blues and purples are grasslands and black represents rivers and lakes.
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Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2025
There’s more than just spectacle to this event: The park can sustain only about 1,000 of the animals without grasslands becoming dangerously depleted, so the excess population will be auctioned off in the roundup’s wake.
—Mark Ellwood, AFAR Media, 30 June 2025
The road passes vast farm fields, undulating grasslands dotted with towering wind turbines and sprawling cattle ranches before entering Amarillo, the Panhandle’s largest city.
—Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2025
These wild animals can be found in a variety of habitats, such as forests, grasslands, deserts and the urban-wildland interface.
—Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 17 June 2025
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Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2025
There’s more than just spectacle to this event: The park can sustain only about 1,000 of the animals without grasslands becoming dangerously depleted, so the excess population will be auctioned off in the roundup’s wake.
—Mark Ellwood, AFAR Media, 30 June 2025
The road passes vast farm fields, undulating grasslands dotted with towering wind turbines and sprawling cattle ranches before entering Amarillo, the Panhandle’s largest city.
—Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2025
These wild animals can be found in a variety of habitats, such as forests, grasslands, deserts and the urban-wildland interface.
—Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 17 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grassland
Noun
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This is like taking a Conestoga wagon from the prairie to the desert.—
Ryan Gajewski,
HollywoodReporter,
11 July 2025
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But there's no denying the force of those would-be Fingers of God that terrorize the prairie, scooping up houses, tanker trucks, and, best of all, a mooing steer.—
EW Staff Published,
EW.com,
3 July 2025
Noun
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But they’ve since been reestablished on the steppes of Mongolia and China, with some in Russia and Ukraine.—
Mark Vancleave,
Twin Cities,
30 June 2025
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In the northwest of what became America, bogs and boreal forests replaced the dry plains and steppe, fed upon and spread by large grazers like wapiti, moose and elk — who lived on, and helped create, the forests that now define the region.—
Saul Elbein,
The Hill,
16 May 2025
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The flightless animal is native to Australia and can live in several different environments, including eucalyptus forests, woodlands, and sand plains.—
Raven Brunner,
People.com,
23 July 2025
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In my opinion, this gives it an advantage over some other plains states.—
Derek Horner,
Outdoor Life,
23 July 2025
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Here, Hensman keeps a herd of seven African savanna elephants (Loxodonta africana).—
Ed Stoddard,
Smithsonian Magazine,
24 June 2025
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The species was once plentiful in Brazil’s savanna, or Cerrado, until farming and timber plantations took over the landscape, according to the zoo.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
18 June 2025
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“Grassland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grassland. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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