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1. (n.) prairie
an extensive, level or undulating, mostly treeless tract of land esp. in the Mississippi valley, orig. covered with coarse grasses.
2. prairie
a tract of grassland; meadow.
Etymology: (1675–85; < F: meadow < VL *prātāria= L prāt(um) meadow +-āria, fem. of -ārius -ary)
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| Definition of 'Prairie' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) prairie
a treeless grassy plain
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1. (noun) prairie
a large area of land with few trees and covered in grasses
the prairies of the Midwest
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| Definition of 'Prairie' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) Prairie
an extensive tract of level or rolling land, destitute of trees, covered with coarse grass, and usually characterized by a deep, fertile soil. They abound throughout the Mississippi valley, between the Alleghanies and the Rocky mountains
2. (noun) Prairie
a meadow or tract of grass; especially, a so called natural meadow
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia |
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1. Prairie
name given by the French to an extensive tract of flat or rolling land covered with tall, waving grass, mostly destitute of trees, and forming the great central plain of North America, which extends as far N. as Canada.
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Sense: (often in plural) in North America, an area of flat, treeless, grass-covered land.
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 Afrikaans: prêrie |
 Arabic: مَرْج، أرض واسِعَه مُعْشَ |
 Bulgarian: прерия |
 Brazilian: pradaria |
 Czech: prérie |
 German: die Prärie |
 Danish: prærie |
 Greek: λιβάδι |
 Spanish: pradera, llanura |
 Estonian: preeria |
 Farsi: دشت |
 Finnish: preeria |
 French: prairie |
 Hebrew: עֲרָבָה |
 Hindi: प्रेयरी, वृक्षहीन घास का |
 Croatian: prerija, stepa |
 Hungarian: préri |
 Indonesian: padang rumput |
 Icelandic: gresja |
 Italian: prateria |
 Japanese: 大草原 |
 Korean: 대평원 |
 Lithuanian: prerija |
 Latvian: prērija |
 Malay: prairi |
 Dutch: prairie |
 Norwegian: prærie |
 Polish: preria |
 Persian: دشت |
 Pashto: دښته |
 Portuguese: pradaria |
 Romanian: prerie |
 Russian: прерия |
 Slovak: préria |
 Slovenian: prerija |
 Serbian: prerija |
 Swedish: prärie |
 Thai: ทุ่งหญ้า |
 Turkish: ağaçsız geniş çayırlık ov |
 Taiwanese: 牧場，林間小空地 |
 Ukrainian: прерія, степ |
 Urdu: صرف گھاس کا بے درخت مقام |
 Vietnamese: đồng cỏ |
 Chinese: 牧场，林间小空地 |
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