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

The desired image, projected against a backdrop of veldt and dust, is always one of determined respectability.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 22, 2013

The mists of night were still rising from the veldt about the Boer lines, and as we looked through our field-glasses, figures here and there, were busily engaged in gathering brushwood for the matutinal fire.

From The Siege of Mafeking (1900) by Hamilton, J. Angus

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

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 Taft, William Nelson

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 Allen, Grant

And we learn to love the great mountains and rich forests and unfenced steppes and veldts and prairies.

From The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty by Younghusband, Francis Edward, Sir