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
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 far plains, the llanos, that stretch from the Caribbean coastal Andes southward to the jungles of the Orinoco, the rains had ceased.
From Time Magazine Archive
Upward to the blue vault of heaven, like the streaming mists that rise through the tropic moonlight from the hot llanos, goes the ceaseless cry of humanity.
From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking
