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What does steppe mean?

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Noun
  1. The grasslands of Eastern Europe and Asia. Similar to (North American) prairie and (African) savannah. [from 1671]
  2. More properly, the name given vast cold, dry grass-plains.
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These wrens breed in rocky habitats, such as canyons, coulees, outcroppings, and talus slopes in the steppe and dry forests.
It has achieved dominant status on tens of millions of hectares of former cold desert shrubland and sagebrush steppe vegetation.
After Datong, further north in Mongol country, the steppe stretches out monotonously to the horizon.
Breeds in wetlands in the steppe and forest-steppe zones, and in mountainous areas along narrow, fast-flowing rivers.
The steppe belongs to no one: everyone finds a place and leaves it when they're done.
My driver had navigated through the arid steppe land without compass or map let alone one of those hateful satellite guidance systems.

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