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.
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Beth Luberecki,
USA Today,
6 June 2026
This involves riding on gravel tracks across pampas, past fjords, and ranchlands.
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Everett Potter,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2026
There, Patagonia stretches out into wide skies, windswept pampas, turquoise lakes, and towering ice fields.
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Eric Sheets,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Dec. 2025
Some invasive ornamental grasses include pampas grass, Mexican feather grass, and fountaingrass.
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Miranda Crowell,
Better Homes & Gardens,
16 Aug. 2025
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pampas
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Nearly 1,500 butterflies will be released back into prairies in Michigan and Manitoba in July.
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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.
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Audiences tuned in weekly to watch tales of law, justice and survival unfold against a backdrop of rugged plains and rising moral stakes in Dodge City, Kan.
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Most travelers visit Africa for wildlife moments such as elephants at a waterhole, lions in the grass and rhinos on open plains.
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Similar trends have played out in Central Asian steppes and South American plains.
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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.
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The medium-sized bats primarily live in arid grasslands, desert scrublands, and dry tropical forests.
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In the San Luis Valley, ranchers have long spread water over their grasslands when temperatures start to freeze to create a sheet of ice over the vegetation.
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This includes savannahs and shrublands.
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Finally, Iris is a tribute to the native plant and flower of the sub-Saharan savannas that giraffes call home.
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“Pampas.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pampas. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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