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Definition: Grassland |
GrasslandNoun1. Land where grass or grasslike vegetation grows and is the dominant form of plant life. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "grassland" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references) |
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Science | Region in which the climate is dry for long periods of the summer, and freezes in the winter. Grasslands are characterized by grasses and other erect herbs, usually without trees or shrubs. Grasslands occur in the dry temperate interiors of continents. (references) |
Weather | Terrestrial ecosystem (biome) found in regions where moderate annual average precipitation (25 to 76 centimeters or 10 to 30 inches) is enough to support the growth of grass and small plants but not enough to support large stands of trees. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands is a group of biomes in which the climate is temperate to semi-arid.
Grasslands are characterized by grasseses and other erect herbs, usually without trees or shrubs. Temperate grasslands occur in the dry temperate interiors of continents.
- water : semi arid (wet season, dry season in summer)
- temperature : warm to hot season (often with a cold to freezing season in winter)
- soil : fertile
- plants : grass
- animals : many mammals, birds, insects…
See also : Steppe
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands."
Synonym: GrasslandSynonym: Meadows. (additional references) |
Crosswords: Grassland |
| English words defined with "grassland": Agrostis, Arctium lappa, Arrhenatherum elatius ♦ Citellus richardsoni, cocklebur ♦ evergreen grass ♦ false oat, finger grass, flickertail, French rye ♦ genus Agrostis, great burdock, greater burdock ♦ Richardson ground squirrel ♦ savanna, Savannah ♦ tall meadow grass, tall oat grass ♦ veld, veldt. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "grassland": grass clearing, grassy clearing, grassy glade. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Grassland Farming (1959) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Missouri poultry producers and their feline friend check the contents of a poultry litter composter, which protects the environment and supplies nutrients for grassland. Credit: Charlie Rahm. |  | NRCS grassland specialist Mark Kennedy, left, advises southwestern Missouri rancher Joe Ewing about the condition of grass in one of Ewing's paddocks. Credit: Charlie Rahm. |
 | OHV Trail across grassland 40 miles north of Belle Fourche. Credit: Merv Coleman. |  | Cattle grazing on grassland 35 miles north of Belle Fourche. Credit: Merv Coleman. |
 | Powerline on grassland. Credit: Merv Coleman. |  | Reservoir in Grassland 35 miles north of Belle Fourche. Credit: Merv Coleman. |
 | Top of Battle Creek Butte - Grassland with Reservoir. Credit: Merv Coleman. |  | Stock Dam on a Grassland Vista. Credit: Merv Coleman. |
 | Grassland Vista 30 miles north of Belle Fourche. Credit: Merv Coleman. | ||
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 | Landscaping; buzz; high-pitched; whirl; lawn; backyard; garden; grass; grassland; grassplot; yard. |
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Economic History | Brazil | Central Brazil contains substantial areas of grassland with only scattered trees. (references) |
China | China will likely import large amounts of grass seed as it returns more farmland to grassland and forest. (references) | |
Uganda | Terrain: 18% inland water and swamp; 12% national parks, forest, and game reserves; 70% forest, woodland, grassland. (references) | |
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| "Grassland" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.36% of the time. "Grassland" is used about 305 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.36% | 300 | 16,755 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.64% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 305 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "grassland": temporary grassland. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "grassland"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | مرعى (grazing, grazing land, pasturage, pasture, prairie), مرج (meadow, pasture, prairie), أرض معشوشبة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | пасище (pasturage, range, run, sheep run, sheepwalk). (various references) | |
Chinese | 草原 (prairie). (various references) | |
Czech | travnatá pùda, pastvina (grass, pasture), luèina. (various references) | |
Danish | groenjord, graesning (grazing, pasturing), graesjord, graesgang (pasture ground), græsmark. (various references) | |
Dutch | grasland (meadow), weideplaats (pasture ground). (various references) | |
Farsi | چمنزار (Prairie). (various references) | |
Finnish | nurmi (grass, lawn), laidunmaa (pasturage, pasture, pasture ground). (various references) | |
French | pâturage (grass, grazing). (various references) | |
German | wiese (field, grass, green, lawn, meadow), weideland (grass, grazing land, pasturage, pasture, pastureland, range). (various references) | |
Greek | σώμα για λιβάδια (grassland body, ley body, match body, plow bottom for sod and clay), συντήρηση των βοσκοτόπων (grassland husbandry), προσωρινό λιβάδι (lea, ley, plowable pasture, rotation pasture, temporary grassland), ημιορεινό λιβάδι με είδη του γένους Nardus (sub-mountainous Nardus grassland), λιβάδι σε πυριτικά εδάφη με Festuca eskia (siliceous Festuca eskia grassland), αλπικό βορειοευρωπαϊκό λιβάδι (alpine and boreal grassland). (various references) | |
Hungarian | füves terület (bent), füves táj. (various references) | |
Indonesian | padang rumput (alp, meadow, pasture, prairie, steppe). (various references) | |
Italian | terreno erboso, prato (green, lawn, Lea, meadow, meadowland), prati, prateria (mead, prairie), pascolo (grazing, pasturage, pasture), pascoli, ferrane, erbai (herbage). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 草地 (meadow), 草地 (meadow), 牧草地 (meadow, pasture). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | くさち (meadow), そうち (apparatus, equipment, forwarding, installation, meadow, sending), ぼくそうち (meadow, pasture). (various references) | |
Manx | banjagh (fallow, lea). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | asslandgray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | prados, pradaria (prairie), pastagem (lea, pasturage, pasture, shieling), campina (bent, field, flat, mead, meadow, plain, prairie). (various references) | |
Russian | сенокосное угодье. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pašnjak (bowline, grass, grazing, pasture, sheep run). (various references) | |
Spanish | pradera (meadow, prairie). (various references) | |
Swedish | grässlätt (prairie, savanna, savannah, veld, veldt), gräsmark,gräsbevuxet område, betesmark (herbage, pasture, pasture-ground, pasture-land, range). (various references) | |
Turkish | otlak (cattle ranch, cattle range, fell, field, grass, hayfield, Lea, paddock, pasturage, pasture, range, run, sheep run, sheepwalk), mera, çayır (grass, hayfield, herbage, mead, meadow, pasture, prairie, verdure). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | лукопасовищне угіддя. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | bãi cỏ (grass-plot, greensward, meadow), đ"ng cỏ (acre, meadow, pasture). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "grassland": grasslands. (additional references) | |
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"Grassland" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Grassle, Grastyan, Trisland. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "grassland" (pronounced gra"sla'nd) |
| 4 | -l a' n d | Badland, cropland, lowland, dreamland, fairyland, Fantasyland, farmland, Fatherland, flatland, heartland, hinterland, homeland, inland, mainland, marshland, Midland, moorland, motherland, Northland, outland, overland, parkland, Southland, sunland, Timberland, wasteland, wetland, Wonderland, woodland. |
| 3 | -a' n d | ampersand, armband, backhand, bandstand, beforehand, broadband, contraband, longhand, farmhand, firebrand, forehand, freehand, grandstand, handstand, headband, newsstand, nightstand, quicksand, reprimand, seastrand, secondhand, shorthand, spaceband, stagehand, undermanned. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-g-l-n-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: garlands. | |
-2 letters: garland, raglans, sandals, sangars. | |
-3 letters: alands, argals, glands, gnarls, graals, grands, lagans, nasals, raglan, salads, sandal, sangar, sangas, sansar, sarans, slangs, snarls. | |
-4 letters: agars, aland, alang, alans, algas, angas, anlas, argal, dangs, darns, drags, galas, glads, gland, glans, glass, gnarl, gnars, graal, grads, grana, grand, grans, grass, lagan, lands, lards, nadas, nards. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-g-l-n-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: grasslands. | |
+2 letters: gradualness, laggardness. | |
+4 letters: boardsailings, gradualnesses, laggardnesses, sailboardings. | |
+5 letters: prostaglandins, scandalmongers. | |
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