veldt

The high veldt rolled away, in shades of coffee and wheat.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 20, 2016

Also, square cars getting rounder, with Land Rover smoothing out its distinct boxy corners, ideal for the African veldt, to look like everything else.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 30, 2015

“In my mind, there was somebody roaring across the African veldt in a Jeep with a DVD beside him, past lions,” Mr. Sanders said.

From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2014

I'd see Mom fly past, then Faith, Doreen, Steven, Barbara, your mom, John, out of the window, over the barbed-wire fence, over the next fence into the veldt and under a thorn tree.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 22, 2013

Do we not selfishly wish that Miss Olive Schreiner had never left the veldt, in the loneliness of which she produced "The Story of an African Farm"?

From How to Write a Novel A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction by Anonymous

In Oregon’s Willamette Valley, annual bouts of fall fire created veldts, typically 10 to 20 acres in size, of nearly pure camas lily, which have tasty roots that Kalapuya families gathered and stored for winter.

From National Geographic ● Dec. 17, 2020

First, in the deserts and veldts arose oral culture, the culture of the spoken word.

From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson

In 1881 they campaigned across the veldts against the Boers.

From Our National Defense: The Patriotism of Peace by George Hebard Maxwell

All around were bare rocks and the dry sweltering veldts, covered only with round stones and red sand and low bushy vegetation.

From What's Bred in the Bone by Grant Allen

That's characteristic of the cobra family, and this specimen—common to the veldts of South Africa where he is known as the 'sheep stinger'—is first cousin to the big king cobras.

From On Secret Service Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved By Government Agents by William Nelson Taft