veld

variants or veldt

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Recent Examples of veld The Rovos line in all its splendor—a vision of green and white carriages that draws the eye across the yellow veld—owes its existence to the foresight of South African Rohan Vos, who, back in 1989, took the business from unlikely dream to realization. Caitlin Morton, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Oct. 2023 Working with local landscape architect Dawid Klopper, the couple removed most of the non-native foliage and replaced it with indigenous plants more typical of South Africa’s veld, or grassland, like aloes and red grass. Ingrid Abramovitch, ELLE Decor, 5 Jan. 2021 There is still plenty of grassland here, or veld, as South Africans call it. David McKenzie, CNN, 6 Mar. 2020 Early in the play, Piet says of the plants: That veld is a hard world. Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 29 May 2018 These velds are where the last several Rift epidemics in South Africa began. Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 1 May 2018 Only 20 feet separated my truck from the king of the veld. charlotteobserver, 27 Oct. 2017 The giraffe now appeared to be part of a surreal painting, running across a purplish veld beneath a red sky. Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for veld
Noun
  • The once-damp rainforest canopy could shift to a dry savanna for at least several centuries.
    Alexandra A Phillips, The Conversation, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The species was thought to be restricted to the Amazon Rainforest and the regions that border the forest before the Cerrado, or savanna, begins, according to the study.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Pettit’s latest space mission, a 220-day jaunt, concluded on his 70th birthday on April 20, when the Russian Soyuz spacecraft that carried him and his two crewmates touched down in the steppe of Kazakhstan.
    Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 10 Oct. 2025
  • On the Kazakh steppe, centuries of nomadic tradition shaped a culture rooted in hospitality and community.
    Nina Subkhanberdina, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Shahjahanpur district, where Pari was found, lies in the fertile, populous plains of north India.
    Aishwarya S. Iyer, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Up to 2 inches could fall in the Southern Rocky Mountain Front and adjacent foothills and plains.
    Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • According to the nonprofit, when trees and shrubs take over grasslands, groundwater and prairie streams get depleted, soil health is compromised, and the bedrock below the grasslands is altered.
    Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
  • They are also considered expert navigators and have returned to some of the same grasslands for thousands of years.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 16 Oct. 2025

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“Veld.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/veld. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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