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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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From her home in the small settlement of Pampa Clemesí, Rosa can see the rows of panels glowing under white floodlights.

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

“In this scenario, the issue will surely be litigated with an uncertain outcome,” explained Gustavo Arballo, a law professor at the La Pampa National University.

From Seattle Times Nov. 20, 2023

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

One of our informants said the Inca city was called Espiritu Pampa, or the “Pampa of Ghosts.”

From Inca Land Explorations in the Highlands of Peru by Bingham, Hiram

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

On the flat, humid pampa, as the vast Argentine grasslands around the capital are known, there was still plenty of fierce gaucho pride and patriotism.

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

The young se�ors have not seen this great tree; it is de king of the lonely pampa.

From Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure by Stables, Gordon

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