Definition of grassland
1
: farmland occupied chiefly by forage plants and especially grasses
2a
: 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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The first known use of grassland was in the 14th century
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