Savanna
Savanna , noun
[Of American Indian origin; compare Sp. sabana, French savane.]
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.
Savannahs are clear pieces of land without woods.
Collocations (3)
Savanna flower (Botany) , a West Indian name for several climbing apocyneous plants of the genus Echites.
Savanna sparrow (Zoology) , an American sparrow (Ammodramus sandwichensis or Passerculus savanna) of which several varieties are found on grassy plains from Alaska to the Eastern United States.
Savanna wattle (Botany) , a name of two West Indian trees of the genus Citharexylum.