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Veld Velt Felt Noun Open Grassland Southern Africa

Veld refers to open grassland, particularly in southern Africa.

Veld refers to open grassland, particularly in southern Africa.

Front veld \VELT or FELT\
Back noun
Open grassland in southern Africa.

[From Afrikaans veld, from Dutch veld (field).]

"From elephant turds, it (a dung beetle) molds food balls, which it rolls backward across the veld by standing on its head and kicking manically with its heels." - Rob Nixon; Around the Water Hole; The New York Times; Jul 28, 2002.

"The fiercely waged struggle which went on between humans and felines in those far-off days when sabre-toothed tiger and cave lion contended with primeval man, has long ago been decided in favour of the most fitly equipped combatant -- the Thing with a Thumb -- and the descendants of the dispossessed family are relegated to-day, for the most part, to the waste lands of jungle and veld, where an existence of self-effacement is the only alternative to extermination." - Hector Hugh Munro (Saki); The Achievement of the Cat.

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