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lla⋅no

[lah-noh; Sp. yah-naw]
–noun, plural -nos [-nohz; Sp. -naws] . (in the southwestern U.S. and Spanish America)
an extensive grassy plain with few trees.

Origin:
1605–15; < Sp: a plain < L plānus plain 1
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lla·no   (lä'nō, lān'ō)   
n.   pl. lla·nos
A large, grassy, almost treeless plain, especially one in Latin America.

[Spanish, plain, from Latin plānum, from neuter of plānus, level; see pelə-2 in Indo-European roots.]
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llano 
1613, Amer.Sp., "prairie," from Sp. llano "plain, even, level, smooth," ult. from L. planum "plain," from planus "smooth" (see plane (1)). Hence, llanero "a Latin-American cowboy" (1878), lit. "plainsman."
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