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Vinony

grassland

noun

  1. area covered mostly in grasses
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Wiktionary

name

  1. A hamlet in Athabasca County, Alberta, Canada.
  2. A rural municipality (the Municipality of Grassland) in south-west Saskatchewan, Canada.
  3. An unincorporated community in Lynn County, Texas, United States.

noun

Etymology: From grass + land. Compare Dutch grasland (“grassland”), Faroese graslendi (“grassland”), Icelandic graslendi (“grassland”). Compare also Old English græsmolde (“grassland”).

  1. An area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation.

    “Yet despite sounding inhospitable, grasslands such as this are home to a huge variety of smaller herbs and wildflowers, including some of the UK's rarest orchids and invertebrates, in addition to being home to butterfly species such as the Chalkhill Blue.”