llano
Americannoun
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llanos
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of llano
1605–15; < Spanish: a plain < Latin plānus plain 1
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Physical Geography - Middle School
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We wanna go down to the llano to see if they practice homogamy, but dunno how to get there.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 16, 2021
Besides Fruehaufs highballing twice daily to Calabozo, Arocha had ten white-painted DC-3s flying chilled beef to the capital from distant llano towns like Ciudad Bolivar, on the Orinoco, and San Fernando de Apure.
From Time Magazine Archive
She took my hand, and the silent, magic powers she possessed made beauty from the raw, sun baked llano, the green river valley, and the blue bowl which was the white sun’s home.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
When she came the beauty of the llano unfolded before my eyes, and the gurgling waters of the river sang to the hum of the turning earth.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
I dreaded to think of a time when I could not walk upon the llano and feel like the eagle that floats on its skies: free, immortal, limitless.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
But intensive agriculture compromises the water, and the ability to sustain life, in a key transition zone between the llanos and the Amazon.
From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2024
The llanos region spans more than 200,000 square miles through Colombia and Venezuela.
From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2024
But in recent weeks, officials said, he had been pining to come home and listening to music from the his boyhood home in the "llanos" or plains in central Venezuela.
From Reuters ● Feb. 22, 2013
On the map, the guerrillas hold a third of the country, but their third, the rolling, grassy eastern llanos, is thinly populated.
From Time Magazine Archive
Teams of scientists outfitted to the eyebrows and trained to cope with any environment or emergency, would explore unknown jungles, llanos, steppes; tramp up and down fertile vales and hills under blue-hot alien suns.
From Next Door, Next World by Robert Donald Locke
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