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steppe

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of STEPPE

a broad area of level or rolling treeless country <nomads have long grazed yaks on the steppes of Mongolia>

Synonyms campo, champaign, down(s), grassland, heath, lea (or ley), llano, moor, pampa, prairie, savanna (also savannah), steppe, tundra, veld (or veldt)

Related Words field, meadow; floodplain; bottom, bottomland, flat, lowland; plateau, table, tableland, upland

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