| 释义 |
Definition of sandveld in English: sandveldnoun ˈsandfɛlt mass nounSouth African Land characterized by dry, sandy soil. Example sentencesExamples - It is a place of great contrasts from the arid salt pans, sandveld and scrub of the Kalahari desert to the huge water wilderness of the Okovango Delta.
- Burning enables growing of crops in three difficult environments: acid soils, strongly leached soils of the rainforest zone and highly weathered plateau sandveld soils of the savannas.
- Livestock should be relocated from the delta to the sandveld, the report recommends.
- As Wilson remarks, ‘re-establishment of woodland on properly de-stumped sandveld was notoriously bad.’
Origin Afrikaans, from Dutch zand 'sand' + veld 'terrain'. |