veldt

The high veldt rolled away, in shades of coffee and wheat.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 20, 2016

Also, square cars getting rounder, with Land Rover smoothing out its distinct boxy corners, ideal for the African veldt, to look like everything else.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 30, 2015

“In my mind, there was somebody roaring across the African veldt in a Jeep with a DVD beside him, past lions,” Mr. Sanders said.

From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2014

The desired image, projected against a backdrop of veldt and dust, is always one of determined respectability.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 22, 2013

The veldt, with its altitude of about seven thousand feet, is much like the plains of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.

From Adventures in Swaziland The Story of a South African Boer by Owen Rowe O'Neil

In Oregon’s Willamette Valley, annual bouts of fall fire created veldts, typically 10 to 20 acres in size, of nearly pure camas lily, which have tasty roots that Kalapuya families gathered and stored for winter.

From National Geographic ● Dec. 17, 2020

First, in the deserts and veldts arose oral culture, the culture of the spoken word.

From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson

That's characteristic of the cobra family, and this specimen—common to the veldts of South Africa where he is known as the 'sheep stinger'—is first cousin to the big king cobras.

From On Secret Service Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved By Government Agents by William Nelson Taft

In 1881 they campaigned across the veldts against the Boers.

From Our National Defense: The Patriotism of Peace by George Hebard Maxwell

The khaki suits were designed to imitate the yellow veldts of South Africa; the gray-green garments of the German forces are designed to simulate the green fields of the north.

From Aeroplanes by James Slough Zerbe