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savanna

[suh-van-uh] / səˈvæn ə /
NOUN
flat grassland
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG
plain savannah


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Kio, whom director Favreau and company begin following when he’s eight weeks old, is a tenacious fellow and there’s never any question that life on the savanna is harsh, severe and can be very brief.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

Deforestation also decreased in the Cerrado -- a vast, biodiverse savanna south of the Amazon.

From Barron's Jul. 10, 2026

Although some savanna areas saw increases due to shrub growth, these gains were far too small to balance the losses.

From Science Daily Apr. 13, 2026

Architect Paul R. Williams’ Guardian Angel Cathedral, which opened in the city in 1963, is cited as a design influence, as are the singular stocky trunk baobab trees of the African savanna.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 17, 2025

If the global temperature rises by 4°C over the next fifty years, as is evidently possible, the whole of the Appalachian wilderness below New England could become savanna.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

Capybaras aren’t native to Mexico; they are South American, occupying savannas and vegetated areas.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 16, 2026

The scale of the increase varied across the four different biomes surveyed, with the sharpest rise in tropical savannas.

From Barron's Jan. 6, 2026

This giraffe lives in the open savannas and wooded grasslands of Kenya, Somalia, and Ethiopia.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2025

As a result, tropical forests, savannas and grasslands in those areas tend to wither and die and burn in wildfires, contributing to additional CO2 emissions.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 5, 2024

The trail had petered out in the forests and savannas of central Africa.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston




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