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also savannah
as in prairie
a broad area of level or rolling treeless country
lions roaming the savanna
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Recent Examples of savanna
Making debuts on the park’s savanna are Corra, a baby elephant; Elijah, an okapi; and three lions named Mshango, Zahara and Neema.
• At Epcot, a manatee named Lou and three male dolphins were relocated from The Seas With Nemo & Friends attraction.
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Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 27 Dec. 2024
Ballooning in the Maasai Mara Kenya’s most popular safari destination, the Maasai Mara National Reserve, comprises nearly 600 square miles of wide-open savanna — an ocean of gold grassland where thousands of animals forage, hunt, play, and rest.
—Liz Wheeler, Travel + Leisure, 24 Dec. 2024
Today, the Amazon rainforest is on the brink of a transformation into degraded savanna, which would dramatically accelerate the decline of wildlife and the destabilization of our climate globally.
—Rebecca Shaw, TIME, 9 Oct. 2024
For spring 2025, creative director Carlotta Oddi recreated a high-definition image of a savanna, replete with lions, giraffes, elephants and zebras, which was crafted from yarns such as silk and cashmere.
—Sandra Salibian, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019
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Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 27 Dec. 2024
Ballooning in the Maasai Mara Kenya’s most popular safari destination, the Maasai Mara National Reserve, comprises nearly 600 square miles of wide-open savanna — an ocean of gold grassland where thousands of animals forage, hunt, play, and rest.
—Liz Wheeler, Travel + Leisure, 24 Dec. 2024
Today, the Amazon rainforest is on the brink of a transformation into degraded savanna, which would dramatically accelerate the decline of wildlife and the destabilization of our climate globally.
—Rebecca Shaw, TIME, 9 Oct. 2024
For spring 2025, creative director Carlotta Oddi recreated a high-definition image of a savanna, replete with lions, giraffes, elephants and zebras, which was crafted from yarns such as silk and cashmere.
—Sandra Salibian, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for savanna
Noun
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Shh—hear the mountains murmur? Peripatetic prairies slowly creep across the globe.—
Daniel Galef,
Scientific American,
15 Oct. 2024
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Thousands of years ago, southern Wisconsin transitioned from a closed-canopy oak forest to an oak savanna—in an open prairie, oaks, instead of growing straight and tall, branch too early for canoe-making.—
Jacqueline Kehoe,
Smithsonian Magazine,
26 Dec. 2024
Noun
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On the backs of horses, human civilization had grown, from the steppes of Asia to Greece, Rome, and Europe.—
Caroline Winterer / Made by History,
TIME,
14 Jan. 2025
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Born 43 years ago in the high steppes of Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia—a two-and-a-half-hour drive from the Russian border—the Chinese bass Peixin Chen sings in primordial tones that set the whole hall and the listener’s rib cage humming.—
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7 Dec. 2024
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The area around it is a unique and delicate ecosystem that includes estuaries and coastal grasslands, mud flats and more, where falcons, hawks, ravens, gulls and songbirds live.—
Robert A. Kopack,
The Conversation,
17 Jan. 2025
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The species is widespread across Ethiopia and known to inhabit woodlands and grasslands.—
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Miami Herald,
17 Jan. 2025
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Leave a comment View Comments The formations have also provided insight into one of the biggest mysteries on Mars — why the planet has a marked boundary between the soaring highlands of its southern hemisphere and shallow plains in the northern hemisphere.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN,
26 Jan. 2025
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That feature is Athabasca Valles, a system of valleys carved into volcanic plains on Mars.—
Victoria Corless,
Space.com,
24 Jan. 2025
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“Savanna.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/savanna. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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