shortgrass
IPA: ʃˈɔrtgræs
noun
- The set of short, tough grasses that thrive in arid plains; often specifically the native grasses of the North American Great Plains.
short-grass
IPA: ʃɔrtgræs
noun
- any of various grasses that are short and can tolerate drought conditions; common on the dry upland plains just east of the rocky mountains
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Examples of "shortgrass" in Sentences
- Buffalograss is a warm season perennial shortgrass.
- Hooknose snakes prefer shortgrass prairie habitats.
- It is surrounded almost entirely by shortgrass prarie.
- It is surrounded almost entirely by shortgrass prairie.
- Buffalograss is a warm season, native perennial shortgrass.
- The plant life surrounding Gladmar consists of shortgrass prairie.
- A shortgrass found mainly on the high plains, it is a valuable fodder.
- The prairie especially the shortgrass prairie can be considered a steppe.
- The Cypress County landscape is dominated by a shortgrass prairie ecosystem.
- The vegetation is steppe, sometimes called shortgrass prairie, and semidesert.
- Salt pans punctuate the expanse of shortgrass prairie and dusky gray sagebrush.
- As its name suggests, it contains a mixture of shortgrass and tallgrass species.
- This region, called mixed-grass steppe, reaches from the tallgrass prairie parkland to the shortgrass steppe at about long.
- Steppe, sometimes called shortgrass prairie, is a formation class of short grasses usually bunched and sparsely distributed.
- All you North Carolinians correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think there's a helluva lot of shortgrass prairie up that way.
- Extensive farming of mostly wheat and barley occurs in parts of Ecoregion 42 and has replaced the original shortgrass prairie.
- Moisture is a limiting factor in the rainshadow of the Rocky Mountains; as a result, drought resistant shortgrass and some mixed-grass prairie dominate the plains vegetation.
- The potential natural vegetation is mixed-grass prairie which includes a prevalence of shortgrass species, such as buffalograss, and it lacks the sagebrush component found in the neighboring Sagebrush Steppe (43e).
- Within Tanzania the area is important for retaining uncultivated lowland vegetation, for the arid and semi-arid plant communities below 1,300 m, for its abundant shortgrass grazing and for the water catchment highland forests.
Examples of "short-grass" in Sentences
- Happy Poetry Month to the long-grass and the short-grass plains ….
- So the Regional Transportation District hopes to find them several hundred acres of short-grass prairie.
- Edible Chenopodium, Indian ricegrass, sego lily roots, yucca, biscuit-root, bloodroot and many other nutritious and medicinal plants still grow here.27 The soil, though alkaline as short-grass soils are, has been enriched by centuries of river and creek silt deposition.
- Petrified Forest National Park contains an abundance of natural and cultural resources including: the largest expanse of recovering short-grass prairie in the Colorado Plateau and associated fauna, reptiles, and one of the most diverse concentrations of birds in Northern Arizona, paleontological resources, historic resources, ethnographic resources, and archaeological resources.
- Do you know him for Great Plains, his travel book from twenty-plus years ago, which first appeared in vast excerpts in the New Yorker where it blew out the doors with the most bravura opening in the magazine's history of bravura openings ( "AWAY to the Great Plains of America, to that immense Western short-grass prairie now mostly plowed under! ...") and then didn't let up for 200 more pages?
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