plains
Vast treeless expanses
Plains are large, flat expanses of land with few trees—the Great Plains of North America, the Russian steppe, African savannahs.
The term suggests open country suited to grazing or agriculture.
Buffalo once roamed the plains in vast herds.
Plains can also be the plural of plain, meaning something simple or unadorned.
Open grassy flatland
- steppeTreeless Eurasian grassland
- savannaTropical grassland, sparse trees
- pampasSouth American treeless plains
- llanoFlat, treeless grassland
veldt · tundra · mesa · plateau · tableland · grassland · flatland · lowland
Large wild ox
- pronghornFast hoofed plains mammal
- antelopeSwift horned grazer
- prairie dogColonial burrowing grassland rodent
- coyoteWild North American canid
jackrabbit · badger · elk · mule deer · fox · gopher · meadowlark · quail
Extremely great in size
- endlessWithout termination or boundary
- boundlessWithout any boundaries
- expansiveCovering a large area
- wideOf great breadth
open · flat · level · unbroken · featureless · horizon · sweeping · immense
prairie
Open grassy flatland
- steppeTreeless Eurasian grassland
- savannaTropical grassland, sparse trees
- pampasSouth American treeless plains
llano · veldt · tundra · mesa · plateau · tableland · grassland · flatland · lowland · basin
bison
Large wild ox
- pronghornFast hoofed plains mammal
- antelopeSwift horned grazer
- prairie dogColonial burrowing grassland rodent
coyote · jackrabbit · badger · elk · mule deer · fox · gopher · meadowlark · quail · sage-grouse
vast
Extremely great in size
wide · open · flat · level · unbroken · featureless · horizon · sweeping · immense · limitless
wheat
Cereal crop for flour
oats · sorghum · millet · rye · harvest · cultivation · farming · irrigation · tillage · plow
Sioux
Plains Indigenous nation
- ComancheSouthern Plains indigenous nation
- CheyennePlains tribe or state capital
- BlackfootPlains Algonquian nation
Lakota · Pawnee · Arapaho · tipi · buffalo hunt · nomadic · travois · tribal · reservation · powwow
- US geographystates, capitals, state boundaries, state lines, regions
- landformsmountain, cliff, valley, volcano, mountain ridge
- ruralfarm, farmhouse, barn, cornfield, tractor
- African Safarielephant, elephants, lions, zebras, zebra
- American SceneryGrand Canyon, Yellowstone, Yosemite, Rocky Mountains, Niagara Falls
- European LandformsAlps, Pyrenees, Carpathians, Danube, Rhine
plainsmountains
Tall elevated landmasses
highlands · hills · peaks · mountain ranges · plateaus
plainsbadlands
Arid, heavily eroded terrain
rugged terrain · mountains · canyons · ravines · gorges
plainsforests
Densely treed land areas
woodlands · jungles · dense forest · thickets · old-growth forest
- in plain sightCompletely visible, unhidden
- plain and simpleWithout elaboration or complexity
- plain livingUnpretentious daily existence
- plain as dayUnmistakably evident
- plain EnglishUnadorned, accessible wording
- in plain viewFully visible, unconcealed
plain, complain, complaint, explained, plainly, complaining, explaining, complaints, explains