grassland

English

Etymology

From grass +‎ land. Compare Dutch grasland (“grassland”), Faroese graslendi (“grassland”), Icelandic graslendi (“grassland”). Compare also Old English græsmolde (“grassland”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

grassland (countable and uncountable, plural grasslands)

1. An area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation.
   • 2024 March 20, Chris Howe, “High speed underneath the Chilterns...”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 33:

     Yet despite sounding inhospitable, grasslands such as this are home to a huge variety of smaller herbs and wildflowers, including some of the UK's rarest orchids and invertebrates, in addition to being home to butterfly species such as the Chalkhill Blue.

Hypernyms

• land

Derived terms

• Alpine grassland orange

Translations

an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation

• Assamese: ঘাঁহনি (ghãhoni)
• Catalan: prada (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 草原 (zh) (cǎoyuán), 草地 (zh) (cǎodì)

• Danish: græsland n
• Dutch: grasland (nl) n
• Finnish: ruohomaa, ruohotasanko
• Galician: pradeira f
• Guaraní: kapi'ity
• Gujarati: બીડ (gu) (bīḍ)
• Ingrian: niitty, heinämaa
• Irish: talamh féaraigh m
• Italian: prateria (it) f
• Khmer: វាលស្មៅ (viəl smaw)
• Korean: 초원(草原) (ko) (chowon)
• Macedonian: тре́виште n (trévište)
• Maori: raorao, pākihi, tahora
• Persian: علفزار (fa) ('alafzâr), واشزار (vâšzâr)
• Polish: łąka (pl) f
• Portuguese: pradaria
• Russian: луг (ru) m (lug), сава́нна (ru) f (savánna)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: trȃvnjāk (sh) m

• Spanish: pradera (es) f, herbazal (es) m, pastizal (es) m
• Thai: ทุ่งหญ้า (th) (tûng-yâa)
• Tibetan: སྤང་། (spang)
• Vietnamese: đồng cỏ (vi), thảo nguyên (vi)
• Welsh: glaswelltir m

See also

• ing
• lea
• llano
• meadow
• outback
• pampa
• paramo
• prairie
• savanna
• steppe
• veld

References

• grassland on Wikipedia.Wikipedia