grassland

noun grass·land \ ˈgras-ˌland \

|Updated on: 14 Aug 2018

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Definition of grassland

1 : farmland occupied chiefly by forage plants and especially grasses

2 a : land on which the natural dominant plant forms are grasses and forbs

b : an ecological community in which the characteristic plants are grasses

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stunning pictures of the giraffes and zebras roaming the grasslands of Africa

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But there is still the issue of forest, not grassland, being the original wildlife habitat in these eastern Kentucky mountains.

— leslie nemo, Scientific American, "From Defiled to Wild—Can a Spent Coal Mine Be Reborn as a Nature Conservation Center?," 11 July 2018
The federal government pays farmers to keep some land wild and that benefits bees that feast on grasslands, flowers and weeds, Otto said.

— seth borenstein, The Seattle Times, "Honeybees finding it harder to eat at America’s bee hot spot," 2 July 2018
From at least 10,000 years ago, coyotes lived in grasslands, prairies and deserts, as far east as the Mississippi and Ohio rivers and as far west as California.

— New York Times, "Coyotes Conquered North America. Now They’re Heading South.," 24 May 2018
Their Brooklyn-size territory is being encroached on by pastoralists whose cattle drink their water and graze on their grasslands, farmers clearing woodlands to grow crops, and climate change that dries up rivers and stunts grass.

— ann gibbons, Science | AAAS, "Farmers, tourists, and cattle threaten to wipe out some of the world’s last hunter-gatherers," 17 May 2018
As the north Dallas suburbs expand into the grasslands which bobcats used to inhabit, sightings of the felines have become frequent.

— aditi shrikant, BostonGlobe.com, "When wild animals urbanize," 13 July 2018
The scent of sage perfumed the air, and bursts of red foliage punctuated the gray-green grasslands.

— beth j. harpaz, chicagotribune.com, "Badlands and history in Theodore Roosevelt National Park," 5 July 2018
Suddenly at the start of the Bronze Age, people were on the move across the grasslands at a massive scale.

— kiona n. smith, Ars Technica, "Tracing how horse domestication turned the Eurasian Steppe into a highway," 11 May 2018
Agricultural use and urban development have stunted the once open and thriving grasslands along the river.

— National Geographic, "This Is What One of the Last Great Migrations Looks Like," 17 Apr. 2018

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First Known Use of grassland

1682

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grassland Synonyms

Synonyms

champaign, down(s), heath, lea (or ley), llano, moor, pampa, plain, prairie, savanna (also savannah), steppe, tundra, veld (or veldt);

Related Words

field, meadow;

floodplain;

bottom, bottomland, flat, lowland;

plateau, table, tableland, upland;

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Definition of grassland for English Language Learners

: land covered with grasses and other soft plants but not with bushes and trees

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grassland

noun grass·land \ ˈgras-ˌland \

Definition of grassland for Students

: land covered with herbs (as grass and clover) rather than shrubs and trees

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