noun
- the open country, bearing grass, bushes, or shrubs, or thinly forested, characteristic of parts of southern Africa.
noun
- elevated open grassland in Southern AfricaSee also bushveld, highveld, renosterveld Compare pampas, prairie, steppe
South African grassland, 1785, from Afrikaans, from older Dutch veld “field;” related to English field (n.).
1785, South African, from older Dutch veldt (see field (n.)).
- An extensive, treeless grassland of southern Africa.