sandveld

English

Noun

sandveld (plural sandvelds)

1. (geography, chiefly Africa) An area of land characterized by dry, sandy soil.
   • 1953, Rhodesia Agricultural Journal, volume 50, page 369:

     In the sandvelds with a rainfall above 25 inches, where it has proved difficult to maintain good annual crop yields under any economical rotation of annual crops, the retirement of ploughed land to leys is highly desirable.

   • 2012, Marinus J.A. Werger, Biogeography and Ecology of Southern Africa, page 408:

     The temperate affinities of this subtropical sub-humid sandveld are with the relatively cool section of a gradient within temperate bushveld, characterized by, e.g. Protea and Faurea species.