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# savannah

«savannah» in Mova's school dictionary: **a large flat grassy land with few trees, in hot places…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a savannah, savannahs); also savanna; proper noun (Savannah) — a name and a city

### meaning for a pupil

1) A savannah is a large flat grassy land with few trees, in hot places like Africa, where zebras and lions live. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/savannah/#m1)

2) (a name) Savannah is a girl's name and a city in Georgia, USA. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/savannah/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and science lessons it is a biome with wet and dry seasons; food chains include grass, zebra, lion. Phrases: the African savannah.

### examples

- Lions hunt on the savannah. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/savannah/#x1)
- The savannah has dry seasons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/savannah/#x2)
- Zebras graze on the savannah. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/savannah/#x3)
- Savannah is my sister's name. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/savannah/#x4)
- We learned about the savannah biome. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/savannah/#x5)
- Elephants walk across the savannah. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/savannah/#x6)

### note

Two spellings: savannah and savanna. Countable. As a name or city, capital S.

### Trees and pragmatics

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