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savannah noun. Also savanna. M16.

Orig., a treeless plain, esp. in tropical America. Now, an open grassy plain with few or no trees in a tropical or subtropical region; grassland or vegetation of this kind. M16.
A tract of low-lying damp or marshy ground. US. L17.
Comb.: savannah flower W. Indies any of several twining shrubs of the genus Echites (family Asclepiadaceae); savannah forest grassland similar to savannah but with a denser growth of trees; savannah grass a stoloniferous grass, Axonopus compressus, of tropical and subtropical America; savannah monkey a common African guenon, Cercopithecus aethiops, of which the green monkey, grivet, and vervet are different forms; savannah sparrow a small sparrow, Passerculus sandwichensis, of the family Emberizidae, common throughout most of N. America; savannah woodland = savannah forest above.