savannahn.
/səˈvanə/, U.S. /səˈvænə/ 1.
a. An open plain of long grass, frequently with scattered drought-resistant trees, which is characteristic of certain tropical and subtropical regions with distinct wet and dry seasons (in early use esp. with reference to tropical America). Also: the grassland or vegetation of such a plain. Also figurative.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > level land > [noun] > level place or plain > in specific country
savannah1555
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steppea1670
pampasa1672
pampas1703
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Great Plains1794
puszta1839
campo1863
polje1894
mudflats1947
the world > plants > by habitat or distribution > [noun] > vegetation characteristic of particular regions or habitats
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1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. iii. f. 102v Hauynge towarde the southe a playne of twelue leages in breadth and veary frutefull. This playne, they caule Zauana [L. Zauánam].
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iv. xxx. 291 The plaines, which they call Savanas.
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World iv. 87 In the Bay of Campeachy are very large Savanahs, which I have seen full of Cattle.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 115 On the Bank of this Brook I found many pleasant Savana's, or Meadows; plain, smooth, and cover'd with Grass.
1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica i. ii. 11 Those more..extended plains commonly called Savanas.
1819 T. E. Bowdich Mission to Ashantee ii. xiii. 448 The red and yellow ochres brought to me, were dug in the neighbourhood of a savannah three journies south-eastward of Empoöngwa.
1865 F. Parkman Huguenots iv, in Pioneers of France in New World 57 Next came the broad sunlight and the wide savanna.
1866 Notes & Queries 3rd Ser. 9 273/1 The allusions..so profusely scattered through the vast savannahs of literature.
1903 W. R. Fisher tr. A. F. W. Schimper Plant-geogr. 261 Tropical grassland, wherever it has not been modified by human agency, occurs chiefly as savannah, more rarely as steppe.
1958 L. van der Post Lost World of Kalahari vii. 123 I met a man..walking out of the bush into a long savannah of buffalo grass.
1968 R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 979/2 Savanna passes in drier regions to steppe or desert, and in wetter areas into savanna woodland.
2008 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 12 Oct. 6 There is still time to look out to the distant savannah where wildebeest, antelopes, lions, giraffes and zebras roam.
b. Chiefly Caribbean. A tract of grassland with defined limits such as a meadow, paddock, ranch, or park.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [noun] > enclosed land or field
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1826 W. Scott Woodstock I. v. 125 Glades..anon opening yet wider into little meadows, or savannahs.
1882 Chambers's Jrnl. 8 Apr. 221/2 The estate has forty head of draught oxen..lodged in the cattle-pen, situated some distance off in the ‘savanna’ or pasture.
1934 ‘J. Rhys’ Voy. in Dark i. i. 4 When the black women sell fishcakes on the savannah they carry them in trays on their heads.
1952 S. Selvon Brighter Sun i. 13 Opposite the school was a large savannah on which cattle and donkeys grazed.
1998 J. Stewart in S. Brown & J. Wickham Oxf. Bk. Caribbean Short Stories (1999) 217 Sunday walks around the savannah, when old and young, the well-off and the poor joined in casual strolls around the bandstand.
2001 A. Vaitilingam Rough Guide to Barbados (ed. 2) i. 55 The centre of the Garrison area is the savannah, a huge grassy space that served as the army's parade ground.
2. North American. An area of marsh, bog, or other damp or low-lying ground.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun]
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1671 M. Mathews in Coll. S. Carolina Hist. Soc. (1897) V. 333 You will finde..great Creeks, mar[s]hes, or Savanoes on the other side.
1753 G. Washington Jrnl. in Writings (1889) I. 17 He told me that the nearest and levellest Way was now impassable, by Reason of many large mirey Savannas.
1782 F. Douglas Birth-day iii. 58 He who erewhile made war on woods, Or drain'd the bogs and deep savannas, Shall rank with heroes.
1843 Penny Mag. 2 Sept. 339/2 In the northern provinces there are many savannahs, or wet meadows.
1871 Our Monthly Oct. 280/1 Again, we come to a broad savannah, a marsh with lagoons and islands, the firm shore a mile away.
1905 R. Zon Loblolly Pine Eastern Texas (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 64) 7 Loblolly is the first pine to take possession of the savannas, or marshy prairies.
1940 C. Weygandt Down Jersey 326 Here, on the sea islands off the Jersey we have savannahs between the dunes and the bayshore.
1987 Canad. Geographic Oct. 97/1 In Nova Scotia and New Brunswick several flat, wet areas with low-growing vegetation are known as heaths... A similar feature in Nova Scotia is also called a savannah.
2006 D. Leebaert Dare & Conquer 7. 206 Cavalry and militia made ready to defend their honour on the boggy savannah.
3. North American. Originally: the open pine woodland of parts of the southern United States and Central America; = pine savannah n. at pine n.2 Compounds 2a. In later use also (with distinguishing word): any of various kinds of open woodland dominated by a particular kind of tree.Recorded earliest in pine savannah.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > wooded land > types of
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island1638
oak landc1658
pinelandc1658
piney wood1666
broom-land1707
pine barrenc1721
pine savannah1735
savannah1735
thick woods1754
scrub-land1779
olive wood1783
primeval forest1789
open wood1790
strong woods1792
scrub1805
oak flata1816
sertão1816
sprout-land1824
flatwoods1841
bush-land1842
tall timber1845
amber forest1846
caatinga1846
mahogany scrub1846
bush-flat1847
myall country1847
national forest1848
selva1849
monte1851
virgin forest1851
bush-country1855
savannah forest1874
bush-range1879
bushveld1879
protection forest1889
mulga1896
wood-bush1896
shinnery1901
fringing forest1903
monsoon forest1903
rainforest1903
savannah woodland1903
thorn forest1903
tropical rainforest1903
gallery forest1920
cloud forest1922
rain jungle1945
mato1968
1735 New Voy. to Georgia 13 We rode about two Miles farther, where we came to a large Pine Savannat [sic].
1827 O. W. Roberts Narr. Voy. Central Amer. 114 I had a long walk into the savannah, which is pretty closely covered with detached clumps of pine trees of all ages and sizes.
1865 Reader 23 Sept. 236/3 The army has been moving through magnificent pine-woods—the savannahs of the South, as they are termed.
1920 F. E. Clements Plant Indicators 147 The Andropogon community of the oak savannah at 5,500 to 6,000 feet.
1950 Ecol. Monogr. 20 310/1 The width of the aspen savannah varies from 50 to 150 miles.
1978 Weed Sci. 26 140/1 Three experiments were conducted; two near Benchley in the Post Oak Savannah and one near Guthrie in the Rolling Plains.
1998 D. M. Richardson & P. W. Rundel in D. M. Richardson Ecol. & Biogeogr. Pinus 22/2 Subtropical savannas with pines reach their northern limit of occurrence in the coastal plain of the southeastern USA.
Compounds
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a. General attributive.
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1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 466 It grows in the Low-land or Savanna Woods.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 128 The open or Savanna Fields.
1774 E. Long Hist. Jamaica I. ii. ii. 352 The savannah lands are for the most part clayey.
1844 E. B. Browning O Dreary Life in Poems 7 Savannah-swards Unweary sweep.
1925 E. A. Powell Map that is Half Unrolled xvii. 333 Thyville..stands on a high plateau in a savannah region.
2011 M. van Vugt & A. Ahuja Selected ii. 52 Our ancestors turned from forest animals to savannah dwellers; walking upright afforded them an advantage in travelling large distances.
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savannah forest n. = savannah woodland n.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > wooded land > types of
ripplelOE
wildwooda1122
rough1332
firth?a1400
tod stripec1446
osiard1509
bush1523
bush-ground1523
fritha1552
island1638
oak landc1658
pinelandc1658
piney wood1666
broom-land1707
pine barrenc1721
pine savannah1735
savannah1735
thick woods1754
scrub-land1779
olive wood1783
primeval forest1789
open wood1790
strong woods1792
scrub1805
oak flata1816
sertão1816
sprout-land1824
flatwoods1841
bush-land1842
tall timber1845
amber forest1846
caatinga1846
mahogany scrub1846
bush-flat1847
myall country1847
national forest1848
selva1849
monte1851
virgin forest1851
bush-country1855
savannah forest1874
bush-range1879
bushveld1879
protection forest1889
mulga1896
wood-bush1896
shinnery1901
fringing forest1903
monsoon forest1903
rainforest1903
savannah woodland1903
thorn forest1903
tropical rainforest1903
gallery forest1920
cloud forest1922
rain jungle1945
mato1968
1874 Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 43 i. 41 The lower mixed forests..gradually pass into the savannah-forests and the true savannahs.
1958 G. Lienhardt in J. Middleton & D. Tait Tribes without Rulers 99 Boundaries between different political communities are often not apparent to the eye in such savannah-forest areas.
2008 K. H. Tan Soils Humid Tropics & Monsoon Region Indonesia iv. 79 The trees of the savannah forest (for example, Acacia and Eucalyptus species) are more adapted to long dry seasons.
savannah woodland n. tropical or subtropical grassland similar to savannah but with a denser growth of trees, though not enough to give a continuous canopy.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > wooded land > types of
ripplelOE
wildwooda1122
rough1332
firth?a1400
tod stripec1446
osiard1509
bush1523
bush-ground1523
fritha1552
island1638
oak landc1658
pinelandc1658
piney wood1666
broom-land1707
pine barrenc1721
pine savannah1735
savannah1735
thick woods1754
scrub-land1779
olive wood1783
primeval forest1789
open wood1790
strong woods1792
scrub1805
oak flata1816
sertão1816
sprout-land1824
flatwoods1841
bush-land1842
tall timber1845
amber forest1846
caatinga1846
mahogany scrub1846
bush-flat1847
myall country1847
national forest1848
selva1849
monte1851
virgin forest1851
bush-country1855
savannah forest1874
bush-range1879
bushveld1879
protection forest1889
mulga1896
wood-bush1896
shinnery1901
fringing forest1903
monsoon forest1903
rainforest1903
savannah woodland1903
thorn forest1903
tropical rainforest1903
gallery forest1920
cloud forest1922
rain jungle1945
mato1968
1903 W. R. Fisher tr. A. F. W. Schimper Plant-geogr. v. 351 Epiphytes..are very scantily represented on the trees in well-lighted xerophilous savannah-woodland, or are entirely absent.
1960 N. Polunin Introd. Plant Geogr. xiv. 442 Savanna-woodland..is found very widely in tropical and subtropical regions.
2001 Trav. Afr. Winter 16/4 The..savannah woodland is resplendent in its annual, late dry-season flush of new apple-green foliage.
C2. In the names of birds, plants, etc., which are typically associated with grassland or savannah habitats.† savannah woodcock n. Obsolete the giant snipe, Gallinago undulata, a large South American wader found chiefly in swampy grassland.
savannah bird n. either of two birds of savannah or grassland in the New World; (a) the grasshopper sparrow, Ammodrammus savannarum; cf. savannah finch n. (a); (b) the smooth-billed ani, Crotophaga ani; cf. savannah blackbird n.
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Cuculiformes (cuckoos, etc.) > [noun] > family Cuculidae > member of genus Crotophaga > crotophaga ani
savannah bird1694
savannah blackbird1756
keel-bill1811
black witch1837
tick-bird1850
tick-eater1903
1694 J. Ray in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Lit. Men (1843) 200 In referring the Savanna bird to the Lark-kind.
1725 H. Sloane Voy. Islands II. 306 The Savanna Bird..is four Inches long [etc.].
1847 P. H. Gosse & R. Hill Birds of Jamaica 242 Tichicro. Grass Pink, or Savanna bird.—Rob. Coturniculus tixicrus.
1905 Queensland Parl. Papers II. 129 A report was furnished on the question of introducing..Pitangus sulphuratus and Crotophaga ani (the Savannah Bird) into Queensland.
1960 J. Bond Birds W. Indies (ed. 3) 241 Grasshopper Sparrow Ammodrammus savannarum. Local names: Savanna Bird; Grassdodger; Grasspink; ‘Tichicro’.
savannah blackbird n. the smooth-billed ani, Crotophaga ani, a noisy and gregarious black bird of the cuckoo family, found in open habitats from Florida to Argentina.
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Cuculiformes (cuckoos, etc.) > [noun] > family Cuculidae > member of genus Crotophaga > crotophaga ani
savannah bird1694
savannah blackbird1756
keel-bill1811
black witch1837
tick-bird1850
tick-eater1903
1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica 474 The Savanna Blackbird. This bird is about the size of a Barbary Dove.., black all over, and splay-footed like a parrot.
1837 Penny Cycl. VIII. 179/2 The Savannah blackbird of the English colonists, and the great blackbird of Sloane.
1912 Summary (Elmira, N.Y.) 4 May 7/3 The Crotophaga... The best known of the three species..is often called the Savannah blackbird.
2005 R. B. Payne Cuckoos 174/1 Smooth-billed Ani Crotophaga ani... Other names: Black Witch, Tick Bird, Savanna Blackbird.
savannah crane n. North American (now historical) the whooping crane, Grus americana.
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the world > animals > birds > order Gruiformes > [noun] > family Gruidae (cranes) > member of genus Grus > grus americana (whooping crane)
whooping crane1731
savannah crane?a1775
?a1775 W. Bartram Trav. Georgia & Florida in Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. (1943) 33 136/1 The watchfull Savanah Crane's shrill Voice rang the Alarm.
1828 T. Flint Condensed Geogr. & Hist. Western States I. 463 The great savanna crane, a very stately bird, about six feet in length from the toes to the extremity of the beak.
1991 P. A. Johnsgard Crane Music 32 The new species was based on a brief account of a ‘Savanna Crane’..by the American naturalist William Bartram.
savannah cricket n. U.S. (now rare) (also more fully savannah cricket frog) a cricket frog (genus Acris); (also) the related little grass frog, Pseudacris ocularis.
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1791 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina ii. x. 278 There is yet an extreme diminutive species of frogs, which inhabits the grassy verges of ponds in savannas: these are called savanna crickets.
1842 J. E. De Kay Zool. N.-Y. iii. 70 [Hylodes gryllus] is known under the names of Peeper and Cricket Frog, in New-York. At the South, it is called Savannah Cricket.
1882 Amer. Naturalist 16 707 The clear, bell-like note of the little batrachian, called by many the ‘Savannah cricket’..Acris crepitans.
1946 Herpetologica 3 59 This step in no way negates the validity of Hylodes ocularis Holbrook, 1838, as the first recognizable description of the Savanna Cricket.
1999 K. Long Frogs 27 The genus Acris is the greek word for locust or grasshopper... Common names: valley cricket frog, western cricket frog,..Savanna cricket frog, [etc.]
savannah elephant n. an African elephant of the larger subspecies Loxodonta africana africana, characteristic of savannah grasslands; also called bush elephant, plains elephant.Now often treated as a full species: see African elephant n. at African n. and adj. Compounds 2b.
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1940 Nigerian Field 9 7 The African Plains or Savannah Elephant appears to spend much of its time digging with its tusks.
1966 Jrnl. Wildlife Managem. 30 377/2 The weight..and the height at shoulder..were similar to the measurements of an 8.5-year female savanna elephant in the Zoological Gardens at Basel.
1991 P. Matthiessen Afr. Silences iii. 98 Poaching gangs reduced the savanna or bush elephant, Loxodonta africana africana, to less than a half million animals.
2010 New Yorker 5 Apr. 44/3 In the late nineteen-seventies and early eighties, there was a spike in the killing of Africa's savanna elephants.
savannah finch n. U.S. (now historical) either of two American sparrows (family Emberizidae) frequenting grassland; (a) the grasshopper sparrow, Ammodramus savannarum (b) the savannah sparrow, Passerculus sandwichensis; cf. savannah sparrow n.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > [noun] > family Emberizidae > subfamily Emberizinae (bunting) > other types of
savannah finch1783
lark bunting1802
savannah sparrow1811
summer finch1823
greenfinch1870
sage sparrow1884
1783 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds II. 270 Savanna Finch.
1834 J. J. Audubon Ornithol. Biogr. II. 63 The Savannah Finch. Fringilla Savanna, Wils... This species is one of the most abundant of our Finches.
1906 Cent. Dict. III. 2219/3 Savanna-finch, an old and disused name of the common yellow-winged sparrow or grasshopper-sparrow of the United States.
1991 Auk 108 185/2 Wilson's use of the scientific name savannah and the English names Savannah Sparrow and Savannah Finch (he used both).
savannah flower n. any of several shrubs or climbing plants of (or formerly of) the genus Echites (family Apocynaceae), typically found in tropical America, which have showy five-petalled flowers and are frequently poisonous.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > non-British climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > American or West Indian
water withy1559
West Indian China-root1577
savannah flower1696
water withe1696
Spanish woodbine1731
potato vine1750
Indian grass1753
seven-year vine1756
tropaeolum1759
woodbine1760
water vine1774
canariensis1835
Philodendron1840
Monstera1858
twig-climber1900
money bush1924
potato creeper1925
sweetheart plant1963
1696 H. Sloane Catal. Plantarum in Jamaica 89 Savanna Flour.
1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 182 The Savanna Flower... This plant is common in the Savannas about Kingston.
1864 M. Reid Maroon III. v. 35 In the sparkling ‘swizzle’ was an infusion of the baneful Savannah flower... One of the deadliest of vegetable poisons!
1910 P. Henderson Henderson's Handbk. Plants & Gen. Hort. 2/396 Savannah Flower, a name applied to Echites suberecta and other species.
2006 J. Kenny Flowers Trinidad & Tobago 74/1 The savanna flower is a vine that is common on savanna borders, clearings and road verges.
savannah fox n. the crab-eating fox, Cerdocyon thous, of savannah and woodland in South America.
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1843 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 13 68 Our monotonous march was interrupted by a fox-hunt. The dogs started a savannah fox (Waé-ré, in Macusi), which led them a famous chase.
1917 W. G. White in W. Beebe et al. Trop. Wild Life Brit. Guiana 464 A smaller animal than the iworo, also diurnal and nocturnal, is the maikang, or savannah fox.
1978 A. M. Husson Mammals Suriname 273 The Savanna Fox is difficult to observe, on account of its mainly nocturnal mode of life.
2007 R. D. Lord Mammals S. Amer. 109 (caption) Savanna fox (Cerdocyon thous).
savannah grass n. a stoloniferous carpet grass, Axonopus compressus, originally native to tropical and subtropical America, but now widespread in warm regions.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > non-British grasses > [noun] > American or West Indian
man-grass1672
Scotch grass1707
ginger-grass1750
savannah grass1750
bottlebrush1798
rescue grass1853
ant rice1861
1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 239 Savannah-Grass. This is a long creeping Grass, full of Joints. From each joint rises a grassy sharp-pointed Leaf.
1859 G. W. Perry Turpentine Farming 9 Every kind of turf should be turned over, such as..wire grass, savanna grass, and broom-sage grass.
1954 Farmer's Guide (Jamaica Agric. Soc.) 232 Savannah Grass—Carpet Grass (Axonopus compressus)... In the West Indies it is an important pasture grass.
2006 R. Vardhana Floristic Plants World I. 98 Savanna grass... Native of the Caribbean Islands and Central America..flourishes on moist soils of Assam.
savannah sparrow n. an American sparrow, Passerculus sandwichensis (formerly Fringilla savanna) (family Emberizidae), common in grassland in North America.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > [noun] > family Emberizidae > subfamily Emberizinae (bunting) > other types of
savannah finch1783
lark bunting1802
savannah sparrow1811
summer finch1823
greenfinch1870
sage sparrow1884
1811 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. III. 55 (heading) Savannah Sparrow... Fringilla Savanna.
1968 J. K. Terres How Birds Fly x. 89 A savannah sparrow, a small bird of open fields, traveled at thirty-seven miles an hour.
2008 Sci. News 8 Nov. 26/1 Male savannah sparrows..gather each summer to breed on Kent Island in Canada's Bay of Fundy.
savannah wattle n. either of two fiddlewoods, Citharexylum quadrangulare and C. cinereum (family Verbenaceae), which are trees of the Caribbean region with small white flowers and large leathery leaves.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > South American and West Indian trees or shrubs > [noun] > others
persea1601
mahoe1666
poison berry1672
white mangrove1683
maiden plum1696
angelin1704
garlic-pear1725
milkwood-tree1725
Jack-in-the-box1735
cherimoya1736
rattle bush1750
galapee1756
genip1756
lace bark1756
sunfruit1787
wild orange1802
hog-nut1814
mountain pride1814
savannah wattle1814
mora1825
rubber tree1826
mayflower1837
bastard manchineel1838
long john1838
seringa1847
sack tree1849
jumbie tree1860
jumbie bean1862
king-tree1863
gauze-tree1864
mountain green1864
snowdrop tree1864
strong bark1864
switch-sorrel1864
candle-tree1866
maypole1866
angelique1873
poisonwood1884
porkwood1884
1814 J. Lunan Hortus Jamaicensis I. 202 Called the hairy samyda or cloven berry bush, but known among negroes by the name of savanna wattle, parrot-wood, and wild coffee.
1890 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1889 399 Citharexylum cinereum, L. Fiddle-wood, Savanna Wattle. West Indies.
1907 Encycl. Americana XVI. at Wattles Savannah wattles are West Indian trees..of the verbena family.
2005 M. M. Grandtner Elsevier's Dict. Trees 213/1 Citharexylum spinosum... savannah wattle; spicate fiddlewood (Bahamas).
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > genus Gallinago > other types
savannah woodcock1785
1785 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds III. i. 132 Savanna Woodcock.
1813 G. Montagu Suppl. Ornithol. Dict. at Snipe—Great The Great Snipe and the Savanna Woodcock are, we think, very judiciously brought together.
1896 R. B. Sharpe Catal. Birds Brit. Mus. XXIV. 659 Gallinago undulata... Savanna Woodcock.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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