| / English Dictionary |
PRAIRIE
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A treeless grassy plain
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("prairie" is a kind of...):
grassland (land where grass or grasslike vegetation grows and is the dominant form of plant life)
Instance hyponyms:
Great Plains; Great Plains of North America (a vast prairie region extending from Alberta and Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada south through the west central United States into Texas; formerly inhabited by Native Americans)
YOU MAY ALSO LIKE
