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pampas

noun

Definition of pampas

plural of pampa

as in prairies

a broad area of level or rolling treeless country a folktale about gauchos on the pampas

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Recent Examples of pampas Participants travel by horseback to South American landscapes few people ever reach, from vast valleys and sweeping pampas to ancient lenga forests and high plateaus populated with condors. — Beth Luberecki, USA Today, 6 June 2026 This involves riding on gravel tracks across pampas, past fjords, and ranchlands. — Everett Potter, Forbes.com, 30 May 2026 There, Patagonia stretches out into wide skies, windswept pampas, turquoise lakes, and towering ice fields. — Eric Sheets, Travel + Leisure, 5 Dec. 2025 Some invasive ornamental grasses include pampas grass, Mexican feather grass, and fountaingrass. — Miranda Crowell, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Aug. 2025

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Noun

Nearly 1,500 butterflies will be released back into prairies in Michigan and Manitoba in July.

— Ray Campos, CBS News, 26 June 2026
State biologists also consider prescribed burns, 88,000 of which take place each year, as essential for restoring prairies, forests and marshes with new growth.

— Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 June 2026

Definition of prairies

Noun

The daily rotating menu draws from various stops along the route; that night, I was served a zesty octopus, caught in Perth and paired with chimichurri and saltbush, an herb native to arid interior plains like the ones surrounding Kalgoorlie.

— Justin Meneguzzi, Travel + Leisure, 7 July 2026
But when fire conditions spike, AI algorithms will automatically recalculate the region’s electricity flow, diverting power away from fragile forest lines and routing it through safer plains or underground urban corridors.

— Jasmine Garland, The Conversation, 7 July 2026

Definition of plains

Noun

Similar trends have played out in Central Asian steppes and South American plains.

— Tristan Bove, Fortune, 1 June 2026
Longer-running hiking trips take you everywhere from Western Greenland to the sea cliffs of the Faroe Islands, the steppes of Mongolia, or the Tien Shan Mountains of Kyrgyzstan.

— The Editors, Outside, 18 Mar. 2026

Definition of steppes

Noun

Also known as Bombus auricomus, the black-and-gold bumblebee is native to North America and builds below ground nests in the grasslands of Illinois.

— Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2026
An unusually dry and hot winter has created dangerously flammable conditions in forests and grasslands across the West.

— Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 30 June 2026

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