Land covered with coarse vegetation, or the vegetation itself.
〈南非〉（覆盖着粗糙植被的）非洲热带稀树草原；粗糙植被
Example sentencesExamples
The sweetveld is found mainly in the eastern plains, whereas the sourveld is limited to the western regions.
Sweetveld is palatable veld and sourveld is unpalatable veld (particularly in the winter).
The distribution of sweet- and sourveld does not seem to determined by base status itself, but by the concentration of phosphorous and the size of the eady mineralizable nitrogen pool in the soil.
On the second day participants traveled by bus through the north eastern mountain sourveld where extensive eucalyptus and pine plantations cover huge tracts of the Mpumalanga uplands.
This veld type is a recent amalgamation of Acock's northeastern mountain sourveld, Piet Retief sourveld, and northeastern sandy highveld.
Origin
Partial translation of South African Dutch zuurveld.