llano

Examples

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• While driving through the llano, we marveled at the vast sky and the green landscape.

• Upon reassuming the presidency in 1922, he directed state presidents in the llanos to end the transit tax.

  Academic text (2003)

• The Gomecista monopoly had similar effects in the llanos.

  Academic text (2003)

• The General's cattle estates in the llanos suffered vigorous attacks.

  Academic text (2003)

• The llanos, stretching across the central and southern portions of Venezuela, had long constituted the nation's primary region for the production of cattle herds.

  Academic text (2003)

• He came to own vast expanses of the llanos, but unlike most ranchers, he gave equal attention to the acquisition of pastureland in the vicinity of the northern markets.

  Academic text (2003)

• The curlews and the American golden plovers that probably accompanied them liked low-grass plains, such as those of the llanos and savannas from interior Colombia eastward.

  Academic text (1992)

• And in the jungles of the llanos, predators abound: capuchin monkeys, tayras, and forest falcons are among the most formidable hunters of hoatzin chicks.

  Academic text (1992)

• The ranch is situated on a beautiful llano that stretches for miles with hardly any trees.

• The cattle grazed peacefully on the open llano, a common sight in the plains of South America.

Synonyms

P

plain

vsllano

176 1.0

A large flat area of land with few trees

is usually covered in grass and almost treeless rather than having few trees

Compounds

L

Llano Estacado

1 9.8

A large dry flat area in the southern Great Plains in Texas and New Mexico

How Big

steppe

7 7.5

savanna

11 4.2

llano

1 9.9

grassland

19 2.7

field

777 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology