Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A large, grassy, almost treeless plain, especially one in Latin America.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A plain or steppe in parts of Latin America.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. An extensive plain with or without vegetation.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In some of the Spanish or originally Spanish parts of America, a treeless level steppe or plain.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. an extensive grassy and nearly treeless plain (especially in Latin America)
Etymologies
Examples
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The term llano estacado is usually translated as “staked plain.”
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The llano was a place of extreme desolation, a vast, trackless, and featureless ocean of grass where white men became lost and disoriented and died of thirst; a place where the imperial Spanish had once marched confidently forth to hunt Comanches, only to find that they themselves were the hunted, the ones to be slaughtered.
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They've cut the 'phone down to the' llano 'as a start.
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What do you expect from a city whose founder couldn't be bothered to find a Spanish dictionary or speaker and learn that the Spanish word for plain is "llano"?
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I drive through the llano in silence while one commits suicide on the banks of the Pecos River as the Border Patrol closes in.
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The latter appeared as a collection in a work titled "El llano en llamas" ( "The Burning Plain").
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To Juan Rulfo and Pedro Paramo, and his short stories El llano en llamas, and the simple and tragic photographs he took of rural Mexico.
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A native of the llano estacado whose first novel, Waltz across Texas 1975, was set on a ranch near Lubbock, Crawford narrates the Comanche wars of the 1870s from the perspective of a U.S.
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Danjoy, editors, Amazonia Peruana: vegetación húmeda tropical en el llano subandino.
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Danjoy (editors), Amazonia Peruana: vegetacióon húmeda tropical en el llano subandino.
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