steppe
The grasslands of Eastern Europe and Asia.
Other meanings
A vast, cold, dry, grassy plain.
A kind of
- plain
Related words
- steppeland
- steppelike
- steppification
- forest steppe
- mammoth steppe
- shrubsteppe
- steppe cat
- steppe fox
- steppe-witch
- steppe eagle
- steppe mammoth
- steppe-tundra
Word history
From Russian "степь" (flat grassy plain).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “steppe” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.