plains
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Satellites have photographed the far side before, but the astronauts were the first human eyes to see some parts of the far side's surface and its vast craters and lava plains.
From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026
At the time, this region was an elevated landscape surrounded by hot, dry plains.
From Science Daily • Mar. 21, 2026
Nonnative livestock — not just horses and cows but also donkeys, pigs and sheep — thrived in the vast grasslands, plains and deserts of the New World.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026
On the plains of southeastern Montana, Lesh, 64 years old, like many other ranchers, began shrinking his herd several years ago when drought conditions hurt his cattle-raising operation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026
In November, he paid eighteen pence to a Uruguayan farmer for a piece of a colossal skull of yet another extinct mammal—the rhinolike Toxodon, with giant squirrel teeth—that had once roamed the plains.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
