SAVANNA  or See also:

• SAVANNAH

SAVANNAH (Span. sdvana, a See also:

• SHEET

sheet; See also:

• LATE

Late See also:

• LAT

Lat. sabanum, Gr. o0avov, a See also:

• LINEN

linen See also:

• CLOTH

cloth), a See also:

• TERM

term applied either to a See also:

• PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

plain covered with See also:

• SNOW (in O. Eng. sndw; a common Indo-European word; cf. in Teutonic languages, Ger. Schnee, Du. sneeuw; in Slavonic snieg', Lith. snegas; Gr. vi4a, Lat. nix, nivis, whence the Romanic forms, Ital. neve, Fr. neige, &c.; Ir. and Gael. sneachd; the original

snow or See also:

• ICE (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Eis)

ice, or, more generally, to a treeless plain . Its use in See also:

• ENGLISH

English, more frequent formerly than now, is most See also:

• COMMON

common in application to the See also:

• GREAT

great plains of central See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

North See also:

• AMERICA

America, in which it is practically the See also:

• EQUIVALENT

equivalent of " See also:

• PRAIRIE (adopted from the Fr. prairie, a meadow-tract. Late Lat. prataria, Lat. pratum, meadow)

prairie " (q.v.) . In this application it was first used (accented thussavdna) by the See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish historian Gonzalo de See also:

• OVIEDO

Oviedo y See also:

• VALDES, JUAN DE (c. 1500-1541)

Valdes in the 16th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century .