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Steppes

/ stɛps /

plural noun

  1. the huge grasslands of Eurasia, chiefly in Ukraine and Russia
  2. another name for Kyrgyz Steppe
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


steppes

  1. Vast grassy plains associated with eastern Russia and Siberia .


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Hence the high price of the celebrated "brick tea," brought across the steppes of Russia.

The fauna is not abundant except in large mammals, which are very numerous on the drier steppes.

I have often seen the temperature in the Siberian steppes fall to more than forty degrees below freezing point!

To retreat from these remote steppes in safety to the mountains was indeed a triumph.

Arid and extremely arid land are deserts, and semiarid grasslands generally are referred to as steppes.

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