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prai·rie
(prâr′ē)n.
An extensive flat or rolling area dominated by grasses, especially the grasslands that once covered much of central North America.
[French, from Old French praierie, from Vulgar Latin *prātāria, from Latin prāta, meadow.]
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prairie
(ˈprɛərɪ)n
[C18: from French, from Old French praierie, from Latin prātum meadow]
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prai•rie
(ˈprɛər i)n.
1. an extensive, level or undulating, mostly treeless tract of land esp. in the Mississippi valley, orig. covered with coarse grasses.
2. a tract of grassland; meadow.
[1675–85; < French: meadow < Vulgar Latin *prātāria= Latin prāt(um) meadow + -āria, feminine of -ārius -ary]
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prai·rie
(prâr′ē) An extensive area of flat or rolling grassland, especially the large plain of central North America.
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prairie
An extensive open area of flat grassland, especially in the central plains of North America.
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Noun | 1. | prairie - a treeless grassy plain grassland - land where grass or grasslike vegetation grows and is the dominant form of plant life |
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prairie
[ˈprɛərɪ]Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
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prairie
n → Grassteppe f; (in North America) → Prärie f
prairie
:prairie chicken
n (US) → Präriehuhn nt
prairie dog
n → Präriehund m
prairie oyster
n → Prärieauster f
prairie schooner
n → Planwagen m
prairie wolf
n → Präriewolf m
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prairie
(ˈpreəri) noun (often in plural) in North America, an area of flat, treeless, grass-covered land.
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