Prairie

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An extensive area of flat or rolling, predominantly treeless grassland, especially the large tract or plain of central North America.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. an extensive area of relatively flat grassland with few, if any, trees, especially in North America
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
  • n. A meadow or tract of grass; especially, a so called natural meadow.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A meadow; level grassy land: a word frequently used by Hennepin and other French writers in describing the country adjacent to the Mississippi river, and now in common use, designating the level or slightly undulating treeless areas which cover a large part of Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, and other States further south.
  • n. Any small open space in a forest. See the extract.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a treeless grassy plain
  • Equivalent
    Antonym
    forest   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    grassland   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    plain    steppe    Savannah    prairillon   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Arie    Azeri    Barrie    Barry    Berri    Berry    Bury    Canary    Carey    Carrie   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    desert    meadow    marsh    moor    steppe    valley    expanse    forest    heath    plateau