(W. Ind. savana.) An open plain, or meadow without wood.
He that rides past through a country may tell how, in general, the parts lie: here a morass, and there a river; woodland in one part, and savannas in another.--Locke.
Plains immense,
And vast savannas, where the wand'ring eye,
Unfix't, is in a verdant ocean lost.--Thomson, Summer.