Savanna

Word SAVANNA
Character 7
Hyphenation sa van na
Pronunciations /səˈvænə/

Definitions and meanings of "Savanna"

What do we mean by savanna?

A flat grassland of tropical or subtropical regions. noun

A plain or extensive flat area covered with a sheet of snow or ice: so first used, with the accent on the first syllable, by Spanish writers. noun

A treeless plain: so first used in reference to American topography by Oviedo (1535), with the accent on the second syllable. noun

In phytogeography See grass-land. noun

A tract of level land covered with the vegetable growth usually found in a damp soil and warm climate, -- as grass or reeds, -- but destitute of trees. noun

A West Indian name for several climbing apocyneous plants of the genus Echites. noun

An American sparrow (Ammodramus sandwichensis or Passerculus savanna) of which several varieties are found on grassy plains from Alaska to the Eastern United States. noun

A name of two West Indian trees of the genus Citharexylum. noun

A tropical grassland with scattered trees noun

A flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions noun

A tropical grassland with scattered trees

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The word "savanna" in example sentences

The savanna is burned frequently to maintain pasturage for grazing and to keep the land open for hunting. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The unique high altitude grassland or montane savanna is dominated by Loudetia kagerensis on the summits. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The piedmont savanna is patchy, varying according to its degree of laterization and pan-development; in places it is marshy overlying rock pavement. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The savanna is broken by gallery forests which extend up mountainside ravines between 1,000 m and 1,600 m. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A slim, graceful monkey, with long arms and legs, and a fairly flat face, the vervet is sometimes known as a savanna monkey, since it spends most of its time on or near the savanna. ❋ Stanley Coren (2000)

South of the Cuanza River, the Zambezian component of the ecoregion comprises a mosaic of closed woodlands, grasslands and palm savanna, which is found along the lower and drier slopes of the escarpment and along the coast. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Vegetation in the tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas and shrublands biome (also called savanna) consists of a cover of perennial grass species 1 to 2 meters (3 to 6 feet) tall with scattered drought-resistant trees that generally do not exceed 10 meters (32 feet) in height. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The whole of the savanna was a miry and quaking bog, until the partial draining operations of the State, effected a year ago, [in 1855.] ❋ Unknown (1861)

We next crossed a wet savanna, which is the beginning of a region still lower than we had traversed; here we crossed a rapid rivulet of exceeding cool, pleasant water, where we halted to refresh ourselves. ❋ Unknown (1823)

I shall not soon forget the shining vistas through which we rode that day, nor the meadows which possessed all the allurement and mystery which the word "savanna" has always had with me. ❋ Hamlin Garland (1900)

On still lower surface, and also where the sub-soil approaches, near to a low surface, small "savanna" or pond pines, (pinus serotina) became the general forest growth. ❋ Unknown (1861)

Along the canal, the cultivated land maintains a height of four feet, for a considerable distance, and then gradually declines to "savanna" land, which is about a foot higher than the water in the canal, and for a mile in breadth, to the river, and which is totally worthless. ❋ Unknown (1861)

Then some 2 million years ago, as if yesterday in the enormous timescales of the universe, proto-humans emerged on the savanna of Africa with enormously heightened capacities for conscious self-reflection, language, and tool making. ❋ William Grassie (2012)

In the modern world, our social organizations are much larger and more complex than the little tribes that roamed the ancient savanna, but our brains respond to group identity in much the same way. ❋ Michael Taft (2011)

It was late afternoon and the sun was melting into the red haze over the savanna when he helped her into the basket and fired the jets and tossed the sandbags over the side. ❋ T (2009)

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