(n. pl.) Vast plains in the central and southern part of the Argentine Republic in South America. The term is sometimes used in a wider sense for the plains extending from Bolivia to Southern Patagonia.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Argentine hemorrhagic fever (AHF) is an infectious disease, endemo-epidemical, of viral etiology, produced by the Junin virus and limited to the Buenos Aires Province, South of Córdoba, East of La Pampa, and South of Santa Fe.
(2) A double-blind study against placebo was done in two primary schools of the west of La Pampa, with 105 and 43 pupils respectively.
(3) Most of the nearby roads aren't really roads, and one of the best ways to get a feel for the landscape is to go on a sunset horse ride from the middle of the nearby pampas down to the seaside, on one of the Haras Godiva stables group outings (00598 480 6112; harasgodiva.com ).
(4) Embracing the World recently cleaned the Pampa River in the state of Kerala .
(5) In the company of two Swiss photographers, Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer, we passed through 10 World Cup host cities, the Amazon, the Pampas, the Sertão and the Cerrado, stopping only to eat, sleep, photograph and talk to the players and fans we met along the way.
(6) Villa, sitting in the afternoon sun under a big pampas sky, smiles in recollection.
(7) Epizootics of equine encephalitis have occurred since at least 1908, principally in the Pampa and Espinal biogeographic zones, with significant economic losses; human cases of encephalitis have been rare or absent.
(8) As Villa says: 'Here, at least here in the Pampas region, children are well nourished.
(9) Panagea is not like the grandiose tourist estancias that exist in abundance in the Argentine pampa; it's a functional, unpretentious family home.
(10) The nematode species Spiculopteragia spiculoptera, Spiculopteragia asymmetrica and Ostertagia leptospicularis were recovered from the abomasum of wild red deer, Cervus elaphus, in the forest area of the semi-arid Pampeana Region of La Pampa (Argentina) for the first time.
(11) A vaccine against Argentine hemorrhagic fever, the "mal de los rastrojos" of the pampas, has been a dream of physicians and scientists involved with the disease since its recognition in the 1950s.
(12) From 1,000-metre-high forested ridges, the altitude dropped to the rolling hills of Paraná and then finally down to the Pampas flatlands close to the border with Uruguay.
(13) Here's an excerpt from the article : 4,100m (13,450ft) Pampa Corral, near Cusco, Peru: The farmer Julio Hanneco grows 215 varieties of potatoes in his highland village.
(14) The animals were from the Provinces of Buenos Aires (59% of the calves), Córdoba (18%), Santa Fe (16%), Entre Ríos (5%) and La Pampa (2%).
(15) But the wild natural world, comprised of vast areas not managed by humans, rarely exists now except in a few isolated places such as the Alaskan wilderness, the far Canadian north, Siberia, the pampas of Argentina and Uruguay, and the Brazilian Pantanal which are still rich with natural sound, he says.
(16) Bésame, bésame mucho ," crooned Nicolas in a voice as smooth as wild pampas honey.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dr Nidia Mejía talking to Vanesa del Carmen Velásquez, 23, who is 32 weeks pregnant, at her home in Las Pampas, Aguilares.
(18) When I played at Southampton people there showed me them and I saw some in the supermarket here – it was strange.” Sub-equatorial Fray Bentos, surrounded by fertile pampas and abundant palm trees, is said to retain the feel of a place belonging in a Graham Greene novel.
Steppe
Definition:
(n.) One of the vast plains in Southeastern Europe and in Asia, generally elevated, and free from wood, analogous to many of the prairies in Western North America. See Savanna.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Soyuz capsule carrying Hadfield and two crewmates, the US astronaut Thomas Marshburn and the Russian Roman Romanenko, was expected to touch down on the Kazakhstan steppes at 3.31am BST.
(2) The species is recorded in the forest-steppe zone of the Ukraine.
(3) The forth step is the stratified mucous (steppe turtle) and stratified muco-ciliated epithelium (fetuses of birds, many mammals and man).
(4) The features of specific adaptation to Alpine, steppe and taiga zones are found against a background of expressed continental adaptive type.
(5) The farmer told me he'd had bison here as well, and other creatures of the prairies and steppes.
(6) Flannel flags (100 X 200 mm) were tested for fleas collection directly at the entrances of rodents' holes in the steppe region.
(7) In steppe zone foci cases of echinococcosis in humans are regularly recorded and a large stratum of seropositive subjects was revealed by the indirect hemagglutination and latex agglutination tests.
(8) n., from the steppe zone of the Ukraine is described.
(9) Blood-sucking mosquito fauna, season and circadian activity of predominant species, dynamics of hatching place formation in the villages and on the territories surrounding the Golodnaya and Dzhizakskaya steppes have been studied for many years and the materials have been presented.
(10) This is exemplified from the sheep production (utilization of the desert steppe under the conditions of the subtropical winter rain climate) and from the cattle production (utilization of the savannah under the conditions of the alternate humid tropical zone).
(11) Studies of land irrigation effect on Phlebotomus sandflies, carriers of Leishmania major (a zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis causative agent)--were performed for 15 field work periods, from 1967 to 1981, at 18 sites in various natural areas of the Karshi Steppe (Uzbek SSR).
(12) A T-shaped carrier with twin test objects is an inexpensive efficient visual field screening device which facilitated identification of a nasal steppe, a paracentral scotoma, an enlarged blind spot, an arcuate scotoma, macular sparing, or hemianopic defects.
(13) The autopsy of animals have shown that five species of six species of nematodes and one species of cestodes are common parasites of ruminants of the Ukraine steppe zone and two species are specific parasites of eland.
(14) The size of such immune stratum characterizes the activity of natural foci: the largest immune stratum (25.4%) exists among the population of regions with broad-leaved forests, this stratum is somewhat less (12.2-13.2%) in regions with combined coniferous and broad-leaved forest, in regions with different combinations of broad-leaved forests and steppes, as well as mountain forests.
(15) The use of current laboratory methods demonstrated a wide spread of HFRS virus in the territory of this country, involvement in the epizootic process of most species of forest and steppe murine rodents and insectivora.
(16) The Ascanian multi-foetus and pure-bred Karakul sheep reared in the steppe region of the Ukraine are characterized by five-allelic status of transferrin and by diallelic serum arylesterase and alkaline phosphatase.
(17) Again, that was long before I moved the market.” Steppe said Houser was believed to have taken phone calls.
(18) The results of the long-term investigations of the original Altai-Sayany inhabitants' morphophysiological features in connection with general research of adaptation to Alpine, steppe, taiga and desert ecological niches are represented in the article.
(19) A survey of the same human contingents (children under 14 years and adults) in different zones of Ukraine revealed the opisthorchiasis foci of different intensity in the northeastern part of Polesye and in the forest-steppe zone.
(20) Hydrologic characteristic of Dnepropetrovsk, which is situated in drought steppe zone, is presented.