plaine

Definitions of plaine
  1. noun
    extensive tract of level open land
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    bruyère, lande
    open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss
    champ de neige
    a permanent wide expanse of snow
    steppe
    extensive plain without trees (associated with eastern Russia and Siberia)
    toundra
    a vast treeless plain in the Arctic regions where the subsoil is permanently frozen
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    champ, sol, terre
    the solid part of the earth's surface
  2. noun
    a level tract of land
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