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STEPPE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does steppe mean?
• STEPPE (noun)
The noun STEPPE has 1 sense:
1. extensive plain without trees (associated with eastern Russia and Siberia)
Familiarity information: STEPPE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extensive plain without trees (associated with eastern Russia and Siberia)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("steppe" is a kind of...):
champaign; field; plain (extensive tract of level open land)
Domain region:
Russia; Soviet Union; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; USSR (a former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia; established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia and others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991)
Context examples
Scientists discovered the fossils in ancient peat deposits at the Tevshiin Govi mine in the steppes of central Mongolia.
(Paleontologists find fossil relative of Ginkgo biloba, NSF)
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