STEPPE Antonyms

• a small growth of trees without underbrush

• garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth

• a location marked by an intense competition and struggle for survival

• a place where hoboes camp

• an impenetrable equatorial forest

• low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water

• United States painter (1898-1954)

• New Zealand writer of detective stories (1899-1982)

• a fertile tract in a desert (where the water table approaches the surface)

• a shelter serving as a place of safety or sanctuary

• a forest with heavy annual rainfall

• low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog

• a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables

• drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged

• fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid

• a vast treeless plain in the Arctic regions where the subsoil is permanently frozen

• a low area where the land is saturated with water

• land that is covered with trees and shrubs