steppe

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++steppe /step/ noun [countable, uncountable] (also the steppes [plural])  PGa large area of land without trees, especially in Russia, Asia, and eastern Europe 〔尤指俄罗斯、亚洲和东欧的〕大草原，干草原

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steppe• Wheat descends from three grasses that hybridized on the Anatolian steppes.• Galloping horses, endless deserts and grassland steppes.• Farmland, especially among growing crops, open grassland, steppes, semi-deserts.• Saltcoats was made up of lumpy steppe.• In 376, however, the Visigoths found themselves under extreme pressure from the Huns, an Asiatic people from the steppes.• In the steppes and the Caucasus they knew the dead could rise again, and how they could be stopped.• Their linguistic legacy is still to be found in the major river valleys of the steppe and forest-steppe.• They settled the steppes so successfully that their numbers grew to forty-five thousand in less than a century.Origin steppe (1600-1700) Russian step

steppe nounChinese  

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steppe
steppe /step/ noun [uncountable and countable] (also the steppes [plural])a large area of land without trees, especially in Russia, Asia, and eastern Europe

steppeBrE /step/ 🔊NAmE /step/ 🔊 noun [countable, usually plural, uncountable] a large area of land with grass but few trees, especially in SE Europe and Siberia 草原；（尤指东南欧及西伯利亚树少的）干草原◆the vast Russian steppes辽阔的俄罗斯大草原