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veld

noun

ˈvelt

variants or veldt

Definition of veld

as in prairie

a broad area of level or rolling treeless country lions prowling the African veld

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Recent Examples of veld Then the curse of the fathers found me — slow at first, like a rumor rolling over the veld, then sudden, like a snare snapping shut on bone. — Jan Steyn, The Dial, 10 Mar. 2026 The Rovos line in all its splendor—a vision of green and white carriages that draws the eye across the yellow veld—owes its existence to the foresight of South African Rohan Vos, who, back in 1989, took the business from unlikely dream to realization. — J.r. Patterson, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Oct. 2023 Working with local landscape architect Dawid Klopper, the couple removed most of the non-native foliage and replaced it with indigenous plants more typical of South Africa’s veld, or grassland, like aloes and red grass. — Ingrid Abramovitch, ELLE Decor, 5 Jan. 2021 There is still plenty of grassland here, or veld, as South Africans call it. — David McKenzie, CNN, 6 Mar. 2020 These velds are where the last several Rift epidemics in South Africa began. — Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 1 May 2018

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The show features the prairie and gardens of the museum and growers of historic varieties of produce.

— Melinda Moore, Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug. 2026
In place of herds of bison thundering across the prairie, there were piles of bones a story high and as much as a hundred feet long.

— Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of prairie

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Kim, Ryzhikov and Zubritsky returned to Earth in December, touching down in their Soyuz on the steppe of Kazakhstan .

— Mike Wall, Space.com, 27 Aug. 2026
The desire to see Russia as singularly the product of its steppe heritage ends up distorting and simplifying this history.

— Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of steppe

Noun

The urban-wildland interface — where human development intermingles with wild places such as scrublands, grasslands and forests — is the fastest-growing land-use type in the United States.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026
Swim, canoe, geocache, and bird-watch among Bastrop State Park’s mosaic of pines, oaks, shrubs, and grasslands, which are punctuated by a carpet of bluebonnets each spring.

— Allison Tibaldi, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of grassland

Noun

The center of the activities was a grove, within a ring of trees, considered to be one of the oldest oak savannas in the state.

— Gregory Harutunian, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026
With a glorious mane of glowing purple gas and dust, the Lion Nebula sparkles on the cosmic savanna in this new image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope.

— Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of savanna

Noun

Hundreds, thousands of solar panels are distributed like macropixels among ravines, pampas, slopes, and wherever there’s room for them.

— Cristina Dorador, The Dial, 14 July 2026
Participants travel by horseback to South American landscapes few people ever reach, from vast valleys and sweeping pampas to ancient lenga forests and high plateaus populated with condors.

— Beth Luberecki, USA Today, 6 June 2026

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