Steppe land

Steppe land
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  • Steppe — In physical geography, a steppe (German [http://www.answers.com/steppe r=67] , from ru. степь IPA ru|sʲtʲepʲ a flat and arid land , uk. степ IPA|/stɛp/, mn. тал tal, kk. дала IPA|/dɑlɑ/), pronounced in English as IPA|/stɛp/, is a grassland plain… …   Wikipedia

  • Steppe Field Mouse — Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1] …   Wikipedia

  • land — [land] n. [ME < OE, akin to OHG lant < IE base * lendh , unoccupied land, heath, steppe > Bret lann, heath (> Fr lande, moor), Welsh llan, enclosure, yard] 1. the solid part of the earth s surface not covered by water 2. a specific… …   English World dictionary

  • Steppe — (v. russ. stepj, »flaches, dürres Land«), in der Erdkunde Bezeichnung für ausgedehnte Ebenen, die nur mit Gras und Kräutern bewachsen sind oder wegen Mangels an Bewässerung keinen Anbau gestatten (vgl. Ebene). Die Steppen stellen mannigfaltigste… …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • steppe — [step] n [U and C] also the steppes [Date: 1600 1700; : Russian; Origin: step] a large area of land without trees, especially in Russia, Asia, and eastern Europe …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • Steppe, the — ▪ geographical area, Eurasia Introduction  belt of grassland that extends some 5,000 miles (8,000 kilometres) from Hungary in the west through Ukraine and Central Asia to Manchuria in the east. Mountain ranges interrupt the steppe, dividing it… …   Universalium

  • Steppe —    From the Russian step’, the word means a “flat and arid land.” While the steppe is unique to Eurasia, it shares many characteristics with the North American prairie. Russia’s steppe is divided between transitional forest steppe and the classic …   Historical Dictionary of the Russian Federation

  • Steppe Mouse — Mound building Mouse Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification K …   Wikipedia

  • land — n 1. earth, ground, terra firma, terra, dry land, solid ground; shore, seashore, coast, seacoast, 638coastland, beach, waterside, foreshore; continent, subcontinent, mainland, main, island, islet, isthmus, neck, peninsula, cape, foreland; reef,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • Steppe, die — Die Stêppe, plur. die n, bey den neuern Erdbeschreibern, ein aus dem Russischen entlehntes Wort, ein hoch liegendes ebenes unbewohntes und unfruchtbares Land von beträchtlichem Umfange zu bezeichnen, welches man im Deutschen eine Heide zu nennen… …   Grammatisch-kritisches Wörterbuch der Hochdeutschen Mundart

  • steppe — Synonyms and related words: Lebensraum, agricultural region, air space, alkali flat, alluvial plain, arable land, back country, basin, billiard table, black belt, bottomland, bowling green, bushveld, campo, champaign, champaign country, citrus… …   Moby Thesaurus

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