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Savanna  n.  (Spelt also savannah)  A tract of level land covered with the vegetable growth usually found in a damp soil and warm climate, as grass or reeds, but destitute of trees. "Savannahs are clear pieces of land without woods."
Savanna flower (Bot.), a West Indian name for several climbing apocyneous plants of the genus Echites.
Savanna sparrow (Zool.), an American sparrow (Ammodramus sandwichensis or Passerculus savanna) of which several varieties are found on grassy plains from Alaska to the Eastern United States.
Savanna wattle (Bot.), a name of two West Indian trees of the genus Citharexylum.






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"Savanna" Quotes from Famous Books



... the train for a buckboard which was waiting there for Raidler. In this they travelled the thirty miles between the station and their destination. If anything could, this drive should have stirred the acrimonious McGuire to a sense of his ransom. They sped upon velvety wheels across an exhilarant savanna. The pair of Spanish ponies struck a nimble, tireless trot, which gait they occasionally relieved by a wild, untrammelled gallop. The air was wine and seltzer, perfumed, as they absorbed it, with the delicate ...
— Heart of the West • O. Henry

... of many nations. The Buccaneers were mostly French. Their head-quarters, or principal boucans, upon San Domingo, were on the peninsula of Samana, at Port Margot, Savanna Brulee near Gonaives, and the landing-place of Mirebalais. The Spaniards gained at first several advantages over them by cutting off the couples which were engaged in chasing the wild cattle. This compelled ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, Number 59, September, 1862 • Various



Words linked to "Savanna" :   grassland, savannah



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