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GRASSLAND
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Land where grass or grasslike vegetation grows and is the dominant form of plant life
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("grassland" is a kind of...):
biome (a major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate)
parcel; parcel of land; piece of ground; piece of land; tract (an extended area of land)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grassland"):
bent (an area of grassland unbounded by fences or hedges)
hayfield; meadow (a field where grass or alfalfa are grown to be made into hay)
grazing land; lea; ley; pasture; pastureland (a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock)
prairie (a treeless grassy plain)
savanna; savannah (a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions)
veld; veldt (elevated open grassland in southern Africa)
Context examples:
In general, grasslands resisted the effects of global change for the first decade of exposure.
(Environmental change is triggering an identity switch in grasslands, National Science Foundation)
They found that local grassland plant diversity increased over time in abandoned fields but recovered incompletely, and plant productivity did not significantly recover.
(Plant biodiversity struggles to return in wake of agricultural abandonment, National Science Foundation)
Since the first Homo sapiens emerged in Africa 300,000 years ago, grasslands have sustained humans and thousands of other species.
(Environmental change is triggering an identity switch in grasslands, National Science Foundation)
The ecologists discovered that grasslands can be surprisingly tough.
(Environmental change is triggering an identity switch in grasslands, National Science Foundation)
Researchers affiliated with the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center and other institutions looked at 105 grassland experiments around the world.
(Environmental change is triggering an identity switch in grasslands, National Science Foundation)
Global change — including climate change, pollution and other widespread environmental alterations — is transforming plant species in grasslands, and not always in the way scientists expected, a new study reveals.
(Environmental change is triggering an identity switch in grasslands, National Science Foundation)
Grasslands make up more than 40% of the world's ice-free land and can hold up to 30% of the world's carbon, making them critical allies in the fight against climate change.
(Environmental change is triggering an identity switch in grasslands, National Science Foundation)
Today, those grasslands are shifting.
(Environmental change is triggering an identity switch in grasslands, National Science Foundation)
