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# grassland

«grassland» in Mova's school dictionary: **a large area of land covered mostly with grass and few trees** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (grassland, grasslands)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Grassland is a large area of land covered mostly with grass and few trees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grassland/#m1)

2) Grasslands are a type of habitat (biome) found on many continents, such as prairies, savannas and steppes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grassland/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

A geography and science word: grasslands are home to animals like bison, zebras, lions and kangaroos, and much farmland was once grassland. Pupils compare grasslands with forests, deserts and wetlands. Phrases: open grassland, the African grasslands, temperate grassland.

### examples

- Zebras and lions live on the grasslands of Africa. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grassland/#x1)
- The prairies of Canada and the USA are huge grasslands. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grassland/#x2)
- Sheep graze on the grassland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grassland/#x3)
- Grasslands get too little rain for big forests. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grassland/#x4)
- Kangaroos hop across the dry Australian grassland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grassland/#x5)
- Many grasslands have been turned into farms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grassland/#x6)
- Fires help grassland stay healthy by clearing old growth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grassland/#x7)

### note

Uncountable for the land in general (an area of grassland), countable for types or regions (the grasslands of Africa). One word: grassland. Names for grasslands: prairie (North America), savanna (Africa), steppe (Asia), pampas (South America).

### In the corpora

- [Horses were first tamed about 5,000 to 6,000 years ago on the grasslands of what are now Ukraine, Russia and Kazakhstan.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals/8/)
- [Much of Ukraine was then a cold, dry grassland called the mammoth steppe.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/385-ice-age-ukraine-and-europe-cave-bears-cave-lions-the-siberian-unicorn-and-mammoth-bone-houses/2/)
- [When the Ice Age ended, the climate warmed fast, grassland turned to forest and people hunted more.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/385-ice-age-ukraine-and-europe-cave-bears-cave-lions-the-siberian-unicorn-and-mammoth-bone-houses/6/)
- [Grasslands get too little rain for forests but too much for deserts.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands/7/)
- [Grasslands get too little rain for forests but more than deserts.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands/19/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «grassland» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grassland/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.