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nounland where grass or grasslike vegetation grows and is the dominant form of plant life
Definition that contains grassland
- bent an area of grassland unbounded by fences or hedges
- savannah a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions
- anteater nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata
- savanna a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions
- aardvark nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata
- veld elevated open grassland in southern Africa
- veldt elevated open grassland in southern Africa
- agrostis annual or perennial grasses cosmopolitan in northern hemisphere: bent grass (so named from `bent' meaning an area of unfenced grassland)
- arrhenatherum elatius coarse perennial Eurasian grass resembling oat; found on roadside verges and rough grassland and in hay meadows; introduced in North America for forage
- cocklebur burdock having heart-shaped leaves found in open woodland, hedgerows and rough grassland of Europe (except extreme N) and Asia Minor; sometimes cultivated for medicinal and culinary use