Definition of "llano" [lla•no]

• A large, grassy, almost treeless plain, especially one in Latin America. (noun)

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• "The term llano estacado is usually translated as “staked plain.”"
• "The llano was a place of extreme desolation, a vast, trackless, and featureless ocean of grass where white men became lost and disoriented and died of thirst; a place where the imperial Spanish had once marched confidently forth to hunt Comanches, only to find that they themselves were the hunted, the ones to be slaughtered."
• "They've cut the 'phone down to the' llano 'as a start."