| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| savanna or savannah (sə-vān'ə) Pronunciation Key
A flat, grass-covered area of tropical or subtropical regions, nearly treeless in some places but generally having a mix of widely spaced trees and bushes. Savannas have distinct wet and dry seasons, with the mix of vegetation dependent primarily on the relative length of the two seasons. |
A tropical land mass of grassland and scattered trees.
savanna
vegetation type that grows under hot, seasonally dry climatic conditions and is characterized by an open tree canopy (i.e., scattered trees) above a continuous tall grass understory. The largest areas of savanna are found in Africa, South America, Australia, India, the Myanmar-Thailand region, and Madagascar. Their distribution is shown in
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