savanna

A flat grassland of tropical or subtropical regions.

A plain or extensive flat area covered with a sheet of snow or ice: so first used, with the accent on the first syllable, by Spanish writers.

A treeless plain: so first used in reference to American topography by Oviedo (1535), with the accent on the second syllable.

In phytogeography See grass-land.

A tract of level land covered with the vegetable growth usually found in a damp soil and warm climate, — as grass or reeds, — but destitute of trees.

a West Indian name for several climbing apocyneous plants of the genus Echites.

an American sparrow (Ammodramus sandwichensis or Passerculus savanna) of which several varieties are found on grassy plains from Alaska to the Eastern United States.

a name of two West Indian trees of the genus Citharexylum.

A tropical grassland with scattered trees

a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions