Savanna Definition

səvanə
savannas
noun
savannas
A treeless plain or a grassland characterized by scattered trees, esp. in tropical or subtropical regions having seasonal rains.
Webster's New World
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pronoun

A female given name of modern usage, variant of Savannah.

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Other Word Forms of Savanna

Noun

Singular:
savanna
Plural:
savannas

Origin of Savanna

  • Obsolete Spanish çavana from Taíno zabana

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Spanish sabana, from Taino.

    From Wiktionary

Savanna Sentence Examples

  • Many are savanna grasses, in various parts of the tropics, for instance the large genus Andropogon, Elionurus and others.

  • Savanna grasslands are found between tropical rainforests and desert.

  • On the hills the baobab and hyphaene palm are characteristic; on the plateau are stretches of open savanna, and park-like country with clumps of silk cotton and shea-butter trees.

  • Elionurus, a widespread savanna grass in tropical and subtropical America, and also in the tropics of the old world, is rejected by cattle probably on account of its aromatic character, the spikelets having a strong balsam-like smell.

  • The Biodiversity of the Brazilian Cerrado Introduction Central Brazil is covered by a type of tree savanna known as " cerrado " .

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