lea
noun/liː/
/liː/
(literary)- an open area of land covered in grassWord OriginOld English lēa(h), of Germanic origin; related to Old High German loh ‘grove’, from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit lokás ‘open space’, Latin lucus ‘grove’, and perhaps also to light.
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