grassland

grassland

English

Etymology

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

Noun

grassland (countable and uncountable, plural grasslands)

1. An area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation.

Hypernyms

• land

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) Dutch: grasland (nl) n Finnish: ruohomaa, ruohotasanko Gujarati: બીડ (gu) (bīḍ) Irish: talamh féaraigh m Italian: prateria (it) f Khmer: វាលស្មៅ (veal smao)

Korean: 초원 (ko) (chowon) Maori: raorao, pākihi Persian: علفزار‎ (fa) (alafzâr), واشزار‎ (vâšzâr) Portuguese: pradaria Russian: луг (ru) (lug); саванна (ru) (savanna) Serbo-Croatian: trȃvnjāk (sh) m Spanish: pradera (es) f, herbazal m, pastizal m Tibetan: སྤང་། (spang) Vietnamese: đồng cỏ, thảo nguyên (vi) Welsh: glaswelltir m

See also

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

References

• grassland on Wikipedia.Wikipedia