Surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots.

synonyms: sod, sward, turf.

Roget 344: plain, table-land, face of the country; open country, champaign country^†; basin, downs, waste, weary waste, desert, wild, steppe, pampas, savanna, prairie, heath, common, wold^†, veldt; moor, moorland; bush; plateau etc. (level) 213; campagna^†; alkali flat, llano; mesa, mesilla [U.S.], playa; shaking prairie, trembling prairie; vega [Sp.].    meadow, mead, haugh^†, pasturage, park, field, lawn, green, plat, plot, grassplat^†, greensward, sward, turf, sod, heather; lea, ley, lay; grounds; maidan^†, agostadero^†.    ... show more

Dutch: gazon, grasveld, graszode, plag, zode
Polish: darń, darnina