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savanna

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1. savanna - Noun

2. Savanna - Proper noun

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Rather than living as aggregations of families in nomadic bands, as modern hunter-gatherers do, the first humans probably lived like savanna baboons. Richard Leakey

I'm losing Savanna. That's good. No one should own someone else. Orson Scott Card

We see evidence that lakes and forests and wetlands can have different equilibria - so you have a savanna system that may be stable and thriving, but it can also tip over and become an arid steppe if pushed too far by warming, land degradation, and biodiversity loss. Johan Rockstrom

The Internet is part of this ongoing, species-long project we've been working on since we climbed down out of the trees in the savanna. We've been working on it without really knowing it. William Gibson

Bissau has a tropical savanna climate ( Köppen Aw), not quite wet enough to qualify as a tropical monsoon climate (Am) but much wetter than most climates of its type. Source: Internet

Behaviour and ecology Foot and tail The Komodo dragon prefers hot and dry places, and typically lives in dry, open grassland, savanna, and tropical forest at low elevations. Source: Internet

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