savanna

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Even black and white stripes on a brown and green savanna is the best camouflage if that's what everyone else is wearing.

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  1. noun A flat grassland of tropical or subtropical regions.

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  • Millions of kilometers of steppe, savanna, and lava desert allowed landing strips to be as long as you liked. —  F ;SF; - vol 089 issue 01 - July 1995
  • The inland savanna was a good substitute for the grasslands of Africa, where baboon troops spent their afternoons in search of roots and seeds and insects. —  BEN BOVA
  • In the rest of the country, the savanna is covered with thorny scrubs and dotted with huge baobab trees.
  • This oak savanna is a popular feeding ground for Morton Grove's large deer population. —  Marathon Pundit
  • : This blogger calls Panama home and posts about the large range of plants that call the savanna home. —  Muti
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  1. Obsolete Spanish çavana, from Taino zabana.

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  1. Also savannah; = French savane = German savanne, from Old Spanish savana, with accent on second syllable (see def.), Spanish sávana, a large cloth, a sheet, = Old High German saban, sapon, Middle High German saben = Anglo-Saxon saban, a sheet, from Late Latin sabanum, a linen cloth, towel, napkin, = Gothic (Moesogothic) saban, from Greek σάβανον, a linen cloth, towel.
 

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