puna

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Recent Examples of puna Deep wells or puna are cleaned of dirt and debris so the sea water that enters them through underground channels is clean and conducive to salt making. Deepa Bharath, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Jan. 2024 Reviving the amunas could be complemented by projects to restore the puna, the high-altitude tundra ecosystem that, when healthy, holds water like a sponge. Simeon Tegel, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Dec. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for puna
Noun
  • Leave a comment View Comments The formations have also provided insight into one of the biggest mysteries on Mars — why the planet has a marked boundary between the soaring highlands of its southern hemisphere and shallow plains in the northern hemisphere.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Still, White had to find the actual hotel, spending months touring Thailand’s rolling northern highlands, bustling Bangkok, and southern beach resorts of Phuket and Krabi.
    Charlie Campbell, TIME, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The site also boasts grasslands, dry forests and upland areas — just about every habitat southern Indiana has to offer.
    Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Dec. 2024
  • The country’s upland areas are covered by a patchwork of teams made up of locals from all walks of life.
    Tristan Kennedy, WIRED, 7 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota The buttes, bluffs, and pinnacles of the North Dakota badlands make for desirable backpacking come summer.
    Erica Zazo, Outside Online, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Enchantment Resort Sedona, Arizona Snowbirds traveling south for winter can still catch white peaks on red-rock buttes in the high desert.
    Meira Gebel, Axios, 23 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The dome atop Ford Field removes weather as a variable and makes this pick more cut-and-dried than the other three this weekend.
    Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 16 Jan. 2025
  • After a Russian missile blast shattered its windows, doors and glass dome in 2022, the WMF enlisted the U.S. State Department to help restore the building, with assistance from local government agencies.
    Neda Ulaby, NPR, 15 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • In the Chilean altiplano above 12,000 feet, Meiburg spends one of the coldest nights of his life in a sleeping bag on the edge of a salt lagoon, staking out mountain caracaras known for working in groups to flip over heavy flat stones in search of edible creatures.
    Paul Kvinta, Outside Online, 2 Apr. 2021
  • The landscape changed around me; condensing from plains, desert, and mountains into the jungles of Central America, then unfolding in reverse, into the expanse of the altiplano.
    J.R. Patterson, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Feb. 2022

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“Puna.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/puna. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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