savanna

UK/səˈvænə/US/səˈvænə/

nounB1+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,557 of 15,258mostly written

Other forms: savannas

Savanna is hot grassland dotted with trees, home of lions and giraffes. African savanna, cross the savanna, savanna wildlife.

The scattered trees are the definition, since a savanna is neither forest nor open grassland but between them. Britain more often spells it savannah, and the word came from a Caribbean language through Spanish.

Definitions of savanna

1nounsavannaHot grassland dotted with trees, home of lions and giraffes.B1+
“Lions rested in the shade of a lone tree on the dry savanna.”

savanna is a grassland.

Also accepted in games: savannah

Where it comes from

Spanish sabana comes from a Taino word for a treeless plain.

Spanish
sabana
English, today
savanna

From Spanish sabana, from tnq -.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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savanna in the wild

The Kalahari Desert is a large semiarid sandy savanna in Southern Africa covering 900,000 km2, including much of Botswana, as well as parts of Namibia and South Africa.
Kalahari Desert
However, in many savannas, tree densities are higher and trees are more regularly spaced than in forests.
Savanna
The Guinean forest-savanna, also known as the Guinean forest-savanna transition, is a distinctive ecological region located in West Africa.
Guinean forest–savanna mosaic
To the Sudan's south, the more humid forest-savanna mosaic forms a transition zone between the Sudanian savanna and the Guineo-Congolian forests that lie nearer the equator.
Sudanian savanna
In essence, a tropical savanna climate tends to either see less overall rainfall than a tropical monsoon climate or have more pronounced dry season(s).
Tropical savanna climate

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