llano
noun
an extensive grassy plain with few trees.
llanos
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pluralof llano.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The park has been in the works since 2010, when the Colombian government recognized the llanos — long viewed by the public as grassy wastelands — to be a conservation priority.
From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2024
The sandy, acidic, nutrient-poor soils of the llanos can support these commercial crops only when doused with fertilizers and calcium carbonate.
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
The country was no longer monotonously flat, as it had been whilst the river swept along through the llanos.
From Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea by Tom Bevan
