Savanna

Definition of Savanna

Sa`van´na
n.1.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.
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
(Zool.) 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.

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alkali flat, alluvial plain, basin, bottomland, bushveld, campo, champaign, champaign country, coastal plain, delta, desert, down, downs, fell, flat, flat country, flatland, flats, grass, grass veld, grassland, grazing, haugh, haughland, heath, lande, lea, level, llano, lowland, lowlands, lunar mare, mare, mead, meadow, meadow land, mesa, mesilla, moor, moorland, open country, pampa, pampas, park, pasturage, pasture, pasture land, peneplain, plain, plains, plateau, playa, prairie, range, salt flat, salt marsh, salt pan, sebkha, steppe, steppeland, swale, table, tableland, tree veld, tundra, upland, vega, veld, weald, wide-open spaces, wold
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