Noun:

கரம்பு நிலம்,

veld's Usage Examples:

The low veld is everywhere covered with scrub, and water is scarce, the rivers being often dry in the winter season.

The bare veld is dotted with these unsightly buildings for a distance of over fifty miles.

The low land between the high veld and the Waterberg and Zoutpansberg is traversed by the Olifants River, an east flowing tributary of the Limpopo.

Even better pasture is found in the low veld, but there stock suffers in summer from many endemic diseases, and in the more northerly regions is subject to the attack of the tsetse fly.

The middle veld is marked by long low stony ridges, known as rands, and these rands and the kopjes are often covered with scrub, while mimosa trees are found in the river valleys.

The Bluefields, Blewfields, Escondida, or Rio del Desastre, which derives its bestknown name from that of Blieveldt, a Dutch corsair, is navigable for 65 m.

Three-fourths of the country lies north of these hills and is typical veld; the valley of the Caledon, sheltered eastward by the Maluti Mountains in Basutoland, is well watered and extremely fertile.

Rising in the Warm Bokkeveld, it pierces the mountains by Mitchell's Pass, flows by the picturesque towns of Ceres and Worcester, and receives, beyond the last-named place, the waters which descend from the famous Hex River Pass.

As in the middle veld, rands and kopjes occur in the low or bush veld, but the general characteristic of this part of the country, which covers over 50,000 sq.

To the south-west and west it is bounded by the Hex River Moun tains and the Cold Bokkeveld, eastward by the Great Fish River.

escarpment of the high veld and the watershed between the Vaal and Limpopo.

It replaced (1904) the former capital of Bremersdorp situated in the middle veld 23 m.

Synonyms:

grassland, veldt,

Antonyms:

None