prairie
IPA: prˈɛri
noun
- An extensive area of relatively flat grassland with few, if any, trees, especially in North America.
- A number of places in the United States:
- An unincorporated community in Wilcox County, Alabama.
- An unincorporated community in Randolph County, Illinois.
- An unincorporated community in Black Township, Posey County, Indiana.
- An unincorporated community in Monroe County, Mississippi.
- An unincorporated community in Skagit County, Washington.
- A number of townships in the United States, listed under Prairie Township.
- A rural town in the Shire of Flinders, Queensland, Australia.
- A locality in the Shire of Loddon, Victoria, Australia.
- Alternative form of Prairies [the Great Plains of North America]
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Examples of "prairie" in Sentences
- The unit preserves prairie and calcareous fen.
- It is the easternmost of the three prairie provinces.
- The prairies are a contribution of the glacial period.
- Burglars swipe Prairie Village family's Christmas gifts.
- The prairie flax is an especially uncommon species in the east.
- On the prairie, the plows bounced around and the soil stuck to them.
- The card features the face of, the mascot prairie dog of the bureau.
- The theme of Meiere's work is nature and the cultivation of the prairie.
- Prairie Ronde is the birthplace of the women's suffragist Olympia Brown.
- The county is in the southeastern section of the state, in the prairie region.
- This land, you will observe, Mr Campbell, is peculiarly good, having some few acres of what we call prairie, or natural meadow.
- This land, you will observe, Mr. Campbell, is peculiarly good, having some few acres of what we call prairie, or natural meadow.
- When Frémont and his men crossed the continent to California, in 1842, they ate the flesh of that species of marmot which we know as the prairie-dog.
- Even in the towns that survive and in some cases flourish, the prairie is a presence just beyond main street or the railroad tracks or the strip malls.
- * High style on a plain prairie: Why a Kansas-born luxury furniture designer set up his manufacturing shop in his home state, far from the cities where his wares sell.
- In a leadership made up mostly of veteran senators from the South, 47-year-old Thune brings youth and what he calls the prairie sensibilities he learned growing up in small town South Dakota.
- The term prairie is a misnomer in this case; instead we found a beautiful fruitful valley lying between two low ranges of hills, interspersed with groves of trees and picturesque lakes, and watered by a river winding gracefully through its whole length.
- Indeed, the Brown women look nothing like the women in prairie dresses associated with the Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints church formerly run by Warren Jeffs, who was convicted of statutory rape for arranging the wedding of a 14-year-old girl to an older man.