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# savanna

«savanna» in Mova's school dictionary: **a large, flat area of grassland with only a few scattered…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a savanna, savannas — also spelled savannah)

### meaning for a pupil

A savanna is a large, flat area of grassland with only a few scattered trees, found in hot places with a wet season and a dry season. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/savanna/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Geography and science (habitats and biomes): the African savanna is home to lions, zebras, giraffes, elephants and wildebeest; savannas are also found in Australia, South America and India. Animals migrate to follow the rains. Food chains: grass → zebra → lion. Phrases: the African savanna, on the savanna, savanna animals.

### examples

- Lions hunt on the African savanna. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/savanna/#x1)
- The savanna turns green in the wet season. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/savanna/#x2)
- Giraffes eat leaves from the few trees on the savanna. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/savanna/#x3)
- Zebras and wildebeest cross the savanna in huge herds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/savanna/#x4)
- Acacia trees grow on the savanna. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/savanna/#x5)
- The savanna is a grassland biome. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/savanna/#x6)

### note

Two spellings: savanna and savannah — both correct. Countable. A savanna is not a desert (it has a rainy season and grass) and not a rainforest (it has few trees).

### In the corpora

- [Mandrills, the monkeys with red and blue faces, live in the rainforests of central Africa, not on the open savanna.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/4-the-savanna/18/)
- [The African forest buffalo is a smaller, reddish cousin of the savanna buffalo, with swept-back horns that fit dense forest.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/160-the-congo-river/14/)
- [The savanna is a hot grassland with scattered trees, as in much of Africa.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands/20/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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