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n. A vast semiarid grass-covered plain, as found in southeast Europe, Siberia, and central North America.

n. The grasslands of Eastern Europe and Asia. Similar to (US) prairie and (African) savannah.

n. More properly, the name given vast cold, dry grass-plains.

n. One of the vast plains in Southeastern Europe and in Asia, generally elevated, and free from wood, analogous to many of the prairies in Western North America. See savanna.

n. A more or less level tract devoid of trees: a name given to certain parts of European and Asiatic Russia, of which the most characteristic feature is the absence of forests.

n. In phytogeography, xerophilous grassland. This formation as met, with at high elevations is distinguished as alpine steppe.

n. extensive plain without trees (associated with eastern Russia and Siberia)

"With its famous black soil, the Ukrainian steppe is one of the most fertile regions in world but the legacy of Soviet collectivisation means agriculture is not as efficient as in other countries."

steppes   

field    champaign    plain   

steppe disease    steppe murrain    savannah    veld    plain    prairie   

savanna   

Rep    Sep    cep    dep    hep    lep    misstep    pep    prep    rep   

wasteland    prairie    plateau    tundra    Highlands    marsh    moor    veldt    Lowlands    upland