variants
also savannah
as in prairie
a broad area of level or rolling treeless country
lions roaming the savanna
Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
Examples Sentences
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.
Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of savanna
Visitors can wander through a tropical rainforest and savanna grasslands, and even smell an ocean complete with coral reef.
—
Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 26 Oct. 2024
At this National Natural Landmark and a National Historic District, visitors will encounter a wide range of ecosystems including a deciduous forest, an oak savanna, a prairie and wetlands.
—Michele Herrmann, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
These practices include adaptive multi-paddock grazing, which has been applied at scale to over 12,000 cattle on seven farms in the Uruguayan savanna.
—Jamie Hailstone, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
The Amazon rainforest, the Cerrado tropical savanna and the Pantanal wetlands are currently experiencing record-breaking wildfires as a result of these conditions, according to officials in that country.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 19 Sep. 2024
See all Example Sentences for savanna 
Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 26 Oct. 2024
At this National Natural Landmark and a National Historic District, visitors will encounter a wide range of ecosystems including a deciduous forest, an oak savanna, a prairie and wetlands.
—Michele Herrmann, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
These practices include adaptive multi-paddock grazing, which has been applied at scale to over 12,000 cattle on seven farms in the Uruguayan savanna.
—Jamie Hailstone, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
The Amazon rainforest, the Cerrado tropical savanna and the Pantanal wetlands are currently experiencing record-breaking wildfires as a result of these conditions, according to officials in that country.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 19 Sep. 2024
See all Example Sentences for savanna
Recent Examples of Synonyms for savanna
Noun
-
Dead Outlaw David Yazbek, Erik Della Penna, and Itamar Moses’s musical unspools with the homey charm of broadcast heard on a fuzzy radio transmission on a winter night in the prairie.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024
-
The Northeast does not have the huge prairies conducive for wind farms or the easily accessible geothermal energy that exists in parts of the West Coast.Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Nov. 2024
Noun
-
Some of the bones may date to a period 3800 to 3500 years ago, around the time that Yamnaya pastoralists from the steppes, once called Aryans, are thought to have migrated to India.ByVaishnavi Chandrashekhar, science.org, 4 Nov. 2024
-
An invasive species called Hedge Parsley has made its way to Austin from the steppes of Asia, where the plant is native.Cross Harris, Austin American-Statesman, 9 July 2024
Noun
-
During the dry season, the pans are flat, white, vast, and practically lunar, but when the rains start in November, the landscape shifts almost overnight, turning into a vibrant grassland.Nicholas DeRenzo, AFAR Media, 18 Dec. 2024
-
By century’s end, up to 20% of all Earth’s land could experience abrupt ecosystem transformation, such as forests becoming grasslands, with attendant extinction and collapse of ecosystems.Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 10 Dec. 2024
Noun
-
The lake was a white plain with patches of dark timber on the far shore.Wilson H. Stover, Outdoor Life, 5 Dec. 2024
-
What a 1,000-mile railway across the Yucatán jungle says about Mexico’s outgoing president Sept. 29, 2024 The canal networks were built as early as 4,000 years ago by semi-nomadic people in the Yucatan coastal plain.Christina Larson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2024
Thesaurus Entries Near savanna
Cite this Entry
“Savanna.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/savanna. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
Copy CitationLove words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
Share