Steppe
[step] or [stɛp]
Definition
(noun.) extensive plain without trees (associated with eastern Russia and Siberia).
Inputed by Giles--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Checker: Roland
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Prairie, pampa, savanna.
Typist: Merritt
Definition
n. one of the vast uncultivated plains in the south-east of Europe and in Asia.
Typed by Belinda
Examples
- They were a forest people, not a steppe people, and, consequently, wasteful of wood; they were a cattle people and not a horse people. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Steppe-like conditions, conditions of pasture and shrub, were bringing with them vast herds of wild horse. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- His northern ran along the Altai from the Kirghis steppe, north of the desert of Gobi. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The ice of the last glacial age receded gradually, and gave way to a long period of steppe or prairie-like conditions over the great plain of Europe. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The blood in our veins was brewed on the steppes as well as on the ploughlands. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They drifted northward as the snows melted for summer pasture, and southward to winter pasture after the custom of the steppes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- These hunters lived on open steppes for two hundred centuries or so, ten times the length of the Christian era. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is to be found everywhere, even to the steppes of Asia, the plains of Australia, and the ice fields of the Arctic. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Says Ratzel,[266] Strong, longnecked horses are found in enormous numbers on the steppes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Children were less eagerly sought by the inhabitants of the food-grudging steppes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There were forests then in south Russia and in the country which is now Western Turkestan, where now steppes and deserts prevail. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There was a continual influx of masterful will from the forests, parklands, and steppes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Ruth