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大草原 — meaning in English

dà cǎo yuán

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English meaning

  • prairie noun A large stretch of flat or gently rolling grassland with very few trees, especially in North America.
  • savanna noun A grassy plain with scattered trees, typical of tropical and subtropical regions, where the trees are spaced too far apart to form a closed canopy.

Senses

大草原 is used for these senses in English:

  • Woop Woop (Australia, informal) An extremely remote area, the middle of nowhere.
  • boondock (US, with article, almost always plural) A brushy, rural area or location.
  • prairie An extensive area of relatively flat grassland with few, if any, trees, especially in North America.
  • savanna A mixed woodland-grassland biome and ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close.