plain

Roget category 344

3. Words relating to matter
› 3.2. Inorganic matter
›› 3.2.2. Fluid matter

#344. Plain

noun

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^†.

adjective

champaign^†, alluvial — campestral^†, campestrial^†, campestrian^†, campestrine^†.

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