pampa

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an extensive, usually grass-covered plain of temperate South America east of the Andes

   A mounted herder crossed the open pampa before the afternoon storm arrived.

Borrowed through American Spanish pampa from Quechua pampa, 'plain or level ground.' The regular English plural is pampas; capitalized the Pampas names the great lowland region of South America.

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