savanna

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: Sa=van=na

CIDE DICTIONARY

savanna, n. [Of American Indian origin; cf. Sp. sabana, F. savane.].

 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.  [1913 Webster]
"Savannahs are clear pieces of land without woods."  [1913 Webster]

Savanna flower (Bot.), a West Indian name for several climbing apocyneous plants of the genus Echites. -- Savanna sparrow (Zoöl.), an American sparrow (Ammodramus sandwichensis or Passerculus savanna) of which several varieties are found on grassy plains from Alaska to the Eastern United States. -- Savanna wattle (Bot.), a name of two West Indian trees of the genus Citharexylum.

THESAURUS

savanna

alkali flat, alluvial plain, basin, bottomland, bushveld, campo, champaign, champaign country, coastal plain, delta, desert, down, downs, fell, flat, flat country, flatland, flats, grass, grass veld, grassland, grazing, haugh, haughland, heath, lande, lea, level, llano, lowland, lowlands, lunar mare, mare, mead, meadow, meadow land, mesa, mesilla, moor, moorland, open country, pampa, pampas, park, pasturage, pasture, pasture land, peneplain, plain, plains, plateau, playa, prairie, range, salt flat, salt marsh, salt pan, sebkha, steppe, steppeland, swale, table, tableland, tree veld, tundra, upland, vega, veld, weald, wide-open spaces, wold

ROGET THESAURUS

savanna

Plain

N plain, table-land, face of the country, open country, champaign country, basin, downs, waste, weary waste, desert, wild, steppe, pampas, savanna, prairie, heath, common, wold, veldt, moor, moorland, bush, plateau, campagna, alkali flat, llano, mesa, mesilla, playa, shaking prairie, trembling prairie, vega, meadow, mead, haugh, pasturage, park, field, lawn, green, plat, plot, grassplat, greensward, sward, turf, sod, heather, lea, ley, lay, grounds, maidan, agostadero, champaign, alluvial, campestral, campestrial, campestrian, campestrine.