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  1. Extensive open tropical grasslands, with
  2. scattered trees and shrubs. Savannas cover
  3. large areas of Africa, North and South
  4. America, and N Australia. The name was
  5. originally given by Spaniards to the treeless
  6. plains of the tropical South American
  7. prairies. Most of North America's savannas
  8. have been built over.
  9.