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单词 grassveld
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grassveld
grassveld n. South African uncultivated and undeveloped grassland; cf. veld n..In quot. 1838 as the name of an area of South Africa. [After South African Dutch grasveld (1761 or earlier; Afrikaans grasveld); compare the much less common Dutch grasveld, denoting grassland more widely (17th cent. with reference to Asia).]
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1838 J. Backhouse Jrnl. 19 Oct. in Extracts from Lett.: 7th Pt. (1840) 17 It [sc. Zwellendam] is situated in that part of the colony called the Gras Veld, which is hilly and verdant, and lies between the Langberg mountains and the coast.]
1870 Natal (Pietermaritzburg, S. Afr.) Witness 9 Aug. The route by Aliwal North and Bloemfontain is decidedly the best, inasmuch as that is grass-veld the whole way from the coast to Bloemfontain, and that not a single instance of oxen dying has occurred to parties taking that road.
1935 Jrnl. Ecol. 23 242 The study of the development of dense thorn and other scrub upon the over-grazed, grass-veld in South and East Africa is of great importance.
2002 T. Pinchuck et al. Rough Guide S. Afr. (ed. 3) 525 The five-kilometre Umkhiwane Trail can be completed in two hours and goes through forest, open grassveld and swamp forest.
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