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Added 9 October 2026

grassland

noun

noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. More about grassland at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

Land where grass or grasslike vegetation grows and is the dominant form of plant life.

Origin

From grass + land. Compare Dutch grasland (“grassland”), Faroese graslendi (“grassland”), Icelandic graslendi (“grassland”). Compare also Old English græsmolde (“grassland”).

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