veld

variants or veldt

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Recent Examples of veld These velds are where the last several Rift epidemics in South Africa began. Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 1 May 2018 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 The veld looked like the giant desiccated hide of some ancient creature, skinned and scarred and skeletal. Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Dec. 2018 Early in the play, Piet says of the plants: That veld is a hard world. Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 29 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
  • Disney had people stationed across the savanna for Tucker’s protection.
    Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2025
  • More than 30 percent of the biomass in such savannas gets consumed by termites hollowing out trunks from within, according to research by Zanne, a co-author of an article on deadwood and the carbon cycle in the 2024 Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics.
    Katarina Zimmer, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The monument features lava flows, cinder cones, and sagebrush steppe.
    Emese Maczko, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
  • The land dried up, and the Aral Sea—the great oasis of the Asian steppes—evaporated.
    Henry Duckworth, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • But some people don't want to leave Steve Rodriguez lives in a flood plain.
    CBS News, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Ali's community is comprised of seasonal migrants who travel yearly to herd their sheep, mostly in the plains of neighboring Punjab province.
    Ruchi Kumar, NPR, 16 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Whereas mammoths preferred the cold, dry grasslands that spread as Ice Age glaciers expanded, Mammut preferred the warmer, wetter habitats of Pleistocene forests and thrived during the interglacial reprieves from the ice.
    Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2025
  • The population of grassland birds in the U.S. has dropped by 43% since 1970, as row-crop production, drought and habitat loss take their toll, the report says.
    Sarah Metz, CBS News, 13 Mar. 2025

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“Veld.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/veld. Accessed 26 Apr. 2025.

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