savanna
savanna
Definition
sa·vanna (sə van′ə)
noun
a treeless plain or a grassland characterized by scattered trees, esp. in tropical or subtropical regions having seasonal rains
Etymology: Sp sabana, earlier zavana < the Taino name
savanna
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- include: Monitoring is being carried out every month in thirty waterbody sites including savanna and forest lakes, rivers and wetlands.
Preposition: near
- habitat: Ceyx picta ( ssp. unknown ) - African Pygmy Kingfisher Comoé NP: recorded around twice a week in savanna near edge habitat 85.
Adjective modifier
- wooded: Wooded savannas cover 70 % of the area ( CAR, 1992 ).
- tropical: All of us began as the same upright primate, roaming tropical savannas on a million identical earths, and look at us now.
- closed: Halcyon chelicuti chelicuti - Striped Kingfisher seen about twice a week in closed savanna in Comoé NP 83.
- African: They live in the zone where the Sahara desert meets with the large African savannas.
- dry: Day 8 Today we depart early, heading for progressively drier thorn savanna in this remote southern section of Ethiopia.
- open: In the south is the Masai Mara, vast, open savanna, teeming with game.
Modifies a noun
- thicket: Turdoides plebejus - Brown Babbler Comoé NP: 1 caught in savanna thicket near Hyperolius Pond ( May 12 ) 237.
- ecosystem: Species diversity, abundance and distribution of birds in Uganda's savanna ecosystems.
- habitat: The route takes us through savanna habitat and numerous Rift Valley Lakes with great birding.
- woodland: Here tree height estimation for an area of savanna woodland was investigated.
- area: Tourism - The rich variety of wildlife in savanna areas attracts many tourists on safari.
- grassland: Savanna grasslands are found between tropical rainforests and desert.
Noun used with modifier
- thorn: Day 8 Today we depart early, heading for progressively drier thorn savanna in this remote southern section of Ethiopia.
- tree: The Biodiversity of the Brazilian Cerrado Introduction Central Brazil is covered by a type of tree savanna known as " cerrado " .
- acacia: We then move south to the more open, acacia savanna, with more grazing mammals and a greater chance of seeing predators.
- guinea: The park contains mainly guinea savanna woodland and therefore has a similar variety of bird species to other countries of the sahel region.
- grassland: The first day we went through grassland savannas, and arrived at the edge of the forest.
- woodland: There is extensive acacia woodland savanna in the center stretching east from Ikoma and some gallery forest along the rivers.
