GRASSLAND

Pronunciation (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does grassland mean? 

• GRASSLAND (noun)
  The noun GRASSLAND has 1 sense:

1. land where grass or grasslike vegetation grows and is the dominant form of plant life

  Familiarity information: GRASSLAND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRASSLAND (noun)

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)