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STEPPE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extensive plain without trees (associated with eastern Russia and Siberia)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("steppe" is a kind of...):
champaign; field; plain (extensive tract of level open land)
Domain region:
Russia; Soviet Union; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; USSR (a former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia; established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia and others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991)