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Sa·van·nah

(sə-văn′ə)

A city of southeast Georgia near the mouth of the Savannah River. Founded by James Oglethorpe in 1733, it is the oldest city in Georgia and has been a major port since the early 1800s.

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Savannah

(səˈvænə)

1. (Placename) a port in the US, in E Georgia, near the mouth of the Savannah River: port of departure of the Savannah for Liverpool (1819), the first steamship to cross the Atlantic. Pop: 127 573 (2003 est)

2. (Placename) a river in the southeastern US, formed by the confluence of the Tugaloo and Seneca Rivers in NW South Carolina: flows southeast to the Atlantic. Length: 505 km (314 miles)

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Sa•van•nah

(səˈvæn ə)

n.

1. a seaport in E Georgia, near the mouth of the Savannah River. 136,262.

2. a river flowing SE from E Georgia along most of the boundary between Georgia and South Carolina and into the Atlantic. 314 mi. (505 km) long.

savannah

An area of flat grassland in a tropical or subtropical region.

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Noun	1.	Savannah - a port in eastern Georgia near the mouth of the Savannah river Empire State of the South, Georgia, Peach State, GA - a state in southeastern United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War
	2.	Savannah - a river in South Carolina that flows southeast to the Atlantic Savannah River Palmetto State, SC, South Carolina - a state in the Deep South; one of the original 13 colonies
	3.	savannah - a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions savanna grassland - land where grass or grasslike vegetation grows and is the dominant form of plant life

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Savanne

sabana

savana

savannah

[səˈvænə] N → sabana f, pampa f (S. Cone), llanos mpl (Ven)

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savannah

savanna [səˈvænə] n → savane f

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savannah

savanna [səˈvænə] n → savana

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And as upon the invasion of their valleys, the frosty Swiss have retreated to their mountains; so, hunted from the savannas and glades of the middle seas, the whale-bone whales can at last resort to their Polar citadels, and diving under the ultimate glassy barriers and walls there, come up among icy fields and floes; and in a charmed circle of everlasting December, bid defiance to all pursuit from man.

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The sufferings of the travellers among these savage mountains were extreme: for a part of the time they were nearly starved; at length, they made their way through them, and came down upon the plains of New California, a fertile region extending along the coast, with magnificent forests, verdant savannas, and prairies that looked like stately parks.

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Ecosystem function in Savannas; measurement and modeling at landscape to global scales.

Ecosystem function in Savannas; measurement and modeling at landscape to global scales

An ancient hominid hung out on grassy savannas, not in forests as first claimed, a new study argues.

Experts debate hominid habitat: discoverers dispute claim that Ardi roamed savannas

It is also the remarkable story of the restoration of the prairies and oak savannas of the Leopold Reserve, a story that explores the roots of the emerging discipline we are coming to know as restoration ecology.

Prairie Time: The Leopold Reserve Revisited

Savannas are, unfortunately, still the least studied and least understood of all North American terrestrial ecosystems.

Ecology and Management of North American Savannas

For example, Mark Twain National Forest, composed of management units scattered throughout the southern half of Missouri, contains not only forests but a rich mosaic of prairies, glades, savannas, and woodland ecosystems.

Mark Twain's Endangered Ecosystem

North American savannas have become highly fragmented and diminished in size, but their unique combinations of species from prairies and forests remain inspiring to behold.

Storehouses of Natural Diversity

A new study of the genetics of African elephants shows that forest dwellers differ so much from those roaming the savannas that the two may be separate species.

Geneticists define new elephant species

Current ecological thinking holds that fires were once set deliberately by Native Americans, in both grasslands and savannas. Flames roared across the land, killing small trees but stimulating grasses and prairie forbs.