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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SAVAN'NA, n.
An extensive open plain or meadow, or a plain destitute of trees.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions [syn: savanna, savannah]

Merriam Webster's

also savannah noun Etymology: Spanish zavana, from Taino zabana Date: 1555 1. a treeless plain especially in Florida 2. a. a tropical or subtropical grassland (as of eastern Africa or northern South America) containing scattered trees and drought-resistant undergrowth b. a temperate grassland with scattered trees (as oaks)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Savanna Sa*van"na, n. [Of American Indian origin; cf. Sp. sabana, F. savane.] 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. [Spelt also savannah.] Savannahs are clear pieces of land without woods. --Dampier. Savanna flower (Bot.), a West Indian name for several climbing apocyneous plants of the genus Echites. Savanna sparrow (Zo["o]l.), 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see savannah

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Meadow, plain, plateau, prairie, open country, champaign country.

Moby Thesaurus

alkali flat, alluvial plain, basin, bottomland, bushveld, campo, champaign, champaign country, coastal plain, delta, desert, down, downs, fell, flat, flat country, flatland, flats, grass, grass veld, grassland, grazing, haugh, haughland, heath, lande, lea, level, llano, lowland, lowlands, lunar mare, mare, mead, meadow, meadow land, mesa, mesilla, moor, moorland, open country, pampa, pampas, park, pasturage, pasture, pasture land, peneplain, plain, plains, plateau, playa, prairie, range, salt flat, salt marsh, salt pan, sebkha, steppe, steppeland, swale, table, tableland, tree veld, tundra, upland, vega, veld, weald, wide-open spaces, wold