pampas

Whereas glass scrapers were an incremental improvement over flint and obsidian, the introduction of the horse sparked a profound shift on the open grasslands, or pampas, of Patagonia.

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 7, 2023

He pointed to a cavernous undercut that likely destabilized the bluff and noted the clusters of pampas grass, a fluffy, straw-colored weed that wedges its roots into the rocky cracks and joints.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2023

Outside the city, on the broad and dusty plain of the pampas, is the landscape that provides the country its power.

From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2022

It was brought to Argentina's sprawling plains, or pampas, by British immigrants in the late 1800s, where it found a home alongside the South American country's iconic gaucho cowboys.

From Reuters ● Apr. 12, 2022

In the pampas of Argentina and Uruguay, the voyaging Charles Darwin discovered hundreds of square miles strangled by feral artichoke.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

All were European technologies or trade goods adapted by locals on the Patagonian pampa.

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 7, 2023

The tail zigged and zagged through the wet pampa.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 22, 2013

But most Yankees of the U.S. know less about Latin America's most bustling country, its 13,518,239 people and the riches of its fabulously fertile "humid pampa" than they know about Novosibirsk.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the flat, humid pampa, as the vast Argentine grasslands around the capital are known, there was still plenty of fierce gaucho pride and patriotism.

From Time Magazine Archive

They say that pampa deer kill a venomous snake by running around it and exhaling an odor from the leg glands that eventually suffocates the reptile.

From The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia by John R. Spears