savanna
noun
a plain characterized by coarse grasses and scattered tree growth, especially on the margins of the tropics where the rainfall is seasonal, as in eastern Africa.
savannas
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pluralof savanna.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Field data was gathered in 2022 and 2023 across different elevations in East Africa and South America, including cool mountain forests, hot tropical rainforests, and lowland savannas.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 5, 2026
Capybaras aren’t native to Mexico; they are South American, occupying savannas and vegetated areas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026
The scale of the increase varied across the four different biomes surveyed, with the sharpest rise in tropical savannas.
From Barron's ● Jan. 6, 2026
This giraffe lives in the open savannas and wooded grasslands of Kenya, Somalia, and Ethiopia.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2025
The trail had petered out in the forests and savannas of central Africa.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
