llano
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noun
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Etymology
Origin of llano
1605–15; < Spanish: a plain < Latin plānus plain 1
Vocabulary lists containing llano
Physical Geography - Middle School
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South America - 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
As the cold settled over the llano and there was less to do on the farms and ranches, more and more of those kids came into school.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
My mother was not a woman of the llano, she was the daughter of a farmer.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
Perhaps the llano was like me, as I grew the innocence was gone, and so too the land changed.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
Dr. Walschburger stepped right through them as savanna hawks and caracaras, two common birds of prey on the llanos, swooped excitedly over the smoldering pasture, hunting escaping rodents and reptiles.
From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2024
In December, Colombia declared a new national park in a corner of the llanos that borders the Manacacías River.
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
More than two million head of cattle feed, upon these llanos, but they are capable of feeding many times that number.
From Birdseye Views of Far Lands by Nichols, James T. (James Thomas)
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