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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An area of northern Tanzania bordering on Kenya and Lake Victoria. It is internationally well-known for its extensive wildlife preserve.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a vast plain in Tanzania to the west of the Great Rift Valley known for its wildlife
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Instead of trudging like a hippo through the thick sludge of a jungle riverside, I floated like a Snake Eagle across the Serengeti Plain.
Runners Jack Canfield 2010
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Instead of trudging like a hippo through the thick sludge of a jungle riverside, I floated like a Snake Eagle across the Serengeti Plain.
Runners Jack Canfield 2010
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Lions on the Serengeti Plain in East Africa began to twitch and convulse.
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A farm-raised deer or elk is not a wild animal and a fenced-in ranch in Texas is not the Serengeti Plain.
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DANIEL PINKWATER: I am in a tent at a camp on the Serengeti Plain.
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Yep, aristocrats rule us all and have since the beginning of time back there on the Serengeti Plain in Africa.
FEAR The Daily Growler 2006
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Olduvai is a great natural gash in the Serengeti Plain, where hundreds of feet of ancient lakebeds have been exposed by earthquake action.
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We felt as if we were standing in the middle of the Serengeti Plain, waving our arms about, trying to stop the wildebeest migrating.
Some by Fire Pawson, Stuart 1999
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Some 3.5 million years ago, the volcano Sadiman, one of several volcanoes bordering the southern Serengeti Plain, began a series of light-ash eruptions.
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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In one of these horizons, almost all of the handaxes and cleavers some 75 percent of the tools had been made from large pieces of fine-grained green phonolite, a lava that Mary and Richard Hay traced to the small volcano Engelosen, about eight miles away on the Serengeti Plain.
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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