steppe

steppe  (stp)

n.

A vast semiarid grass-covered plain, as found in southeast Europe, Siberia, and central North America.

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[German, from Russian step'.]

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steppe  (stp)

A vast, semiarid grassland, as found in southeast Europe, Siberia, and central North America.

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Noun

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steppe - extensive plain without trees (associated with eastern Russia and Siberia) 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 champaign, plain, field - extensive tract of level open land; "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of his youth"