steppenoun [ C usually plural, U ]
uk/step/us/step/a large area of land with grass but no trees, especially in eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia:
These people have lived for centuries on the Russian steppes.
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Geography: deserts, prairies & wildernesses
- badlands
- Bushman
- common
- desert
- dust bowl
- marginal land
- meadow
- moor
- moorland
- pampas
- plain
- scrub
- sward
- tall-grass prairie
- the outback
- tundra
- undeveloped
- waste
- wasteland
- wild
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