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    Pampa
    noun
    a city in N Texas.
  • pampa
    pampa
    An extensive, treeless grassland of southern South America.

Pampa

American  
[pam-puh] / ˈpæm pə /

noun

  1. a city in N Texas.


pampa Scientific  
/ pămpə /
  1. An extensive, treeless grassland of southern South America.


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None of Pampa Clemesí's 150 residents have access to the national power grid.

From BBC Aug. 9, 2025

The Smokehouse Creek fire, near Mr. Homan’s ranch outside the town of Pampa, has expanded to more than one million acres and threatens to grow further this weekend with windy, dry conditions expected.

From New York Times Mar. 2, 2024

The debate intensified in September 2022 after the government approved a plan by the province of La Pampa to import 45 guanacos to its Luro reserve, which already hosts a few dozen translocated guanacos.

From Science Magazine Nov. 1, 2023

Local firm Pampa Hemp was the first private venture authorized by the health ministry.

From Reuters Mar. 8, 2023

Some of the Pampa shells, like those at Pebas, are proper to brackish water, and occur only on the highest banks.

From The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America by James Orton

All were European technologies or trade goods adapted by locals on the Patagonian pampa.

From Science Magazine Dec. 7, 2023

The tail zigged and zagged through the wet pampa.

From Scientific American Feb. 22, 2013

But most Yankees of the U.S. know less about Latin America's most bustling country, its 13,518,239 people and the riches of its fabulously fertile "humid pampa" than they know about Novosibirsk.

From Time Magazine Archive

For Russia had sent a trade delegation to Buenos Aires presumably to offer Soviet tractors, trucks and combines for wool, hides, and blooded pampa bulls to build up Russia's war-depleted herds.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the southern pampa region there are many small streams, flowing into the La Plata estuary and the Atlantic; most of these are unknown by name outside the republic.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various

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