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Earth, hitting the snooze button on geography for hundreds of flat miles.
means Broad, mostly flat stretches of land with low relief, usually covered in grasses rather than trees.
from From Latin planus, meaning flat or level — the same root that smoothed its way into plane, plain, and esplanade.
Grass empireCover roughly a third of Earth's land surface.
Bread basketMost of the world's grain grows on them.
Soil bankBuilt by millennia of rivers dumping sediment.