Prairie

Noun
prairie


 * 1) An extensive area of relatively flat grassland with few, if any, trees, especially in North America.

Derived terms

 * California coastal prairie
 * camas prairie
 * Canadian Prairies
 * coastal prairie
 * dry-mesic prairie
 * pomme de prairie
 * prairie alligator
 * prairie anemone
 * prairie apple
 * prairie aster
 * prairie-bean
 * prairie berry
 * prairie bird's-foot trefoil
 * prairie bitters
 * prairie bottom
 * prairie-brant
 * prairie-breaker
 * prairie-breaking
 * prairie buffalo
 * prairie-burdock
 * prairie-buster
 * prairie button snakeroot
 * prairie chicken
 * Prairie City
 * prairie climate
 * prairie clipper
 * prairie clover
 * prairie coal
 * prairie cock
 * prairie cocktail
 * prairie coneflower
 * prairie conjunctivitis
 * prairie cordgrass
 * prairie crab
 * prairie crab apple
 * Prairie Cree
 * prairie crocus
 * prairie-cup
 * prairied
 * prairie dock
 * prairie dog


 * prairiedom
 * prairie dropseed
 * prairie falcon
 * prairie-fire
 * prairie-formation
 * prairie fowl
 * prairie fox
 * prairie gentian
 * prairie golden aster
 * prairie-goose
 * prairie gourd
 * prairie gourd vine
 * prairie grass
 * prairie grass pink
 * prairie grouse
 * prairie hare
 * prairie hawk
 * prairie hen
 * prairie itch
 * prairie lake
 * prairie loo
 * prairie lotus
 * prairie madness
 * prairie mallow
 * prairie marmot


 * prairie mimosa
 * prairie mole
 * prairie orchid
 * prairie owl
 * prairie oyster
 * prairie pea
 * prairie phase
 * prairie pigeon
 * prairie plough, prairie plow
 * prairie plover
 * prairie potato
 * prairie pothole
 * Prairie Provinces
 * prairie rattler
 * prairie rattlesnake
 * prairie-renovator
 * prairie rent
 * prairie restoration
 * prairie rocket
 * prairie rose
 * prairie sage
 * prairie sagewort
 * Prairie School
 * prairie schooner
 * prairie ship
 * prairie shrew
 * prairie skink
 * prairie skirt
 * prairie smoke
 * prairie snake
 * prairie snipe
 * prairie soil
 * Prairie Spy
 * prairie squint
 * prairie squirrel
 * prairie star
 * Prairie State
 * Prairie style
 * prairie sunflower
 * prairie trefoil
 * prairie trillium
 * prairie turnip
 * prairie vole
 * prairie value
 * Prairie Village
 * prairie wagon
 * prairie wake-robin
 * prairie warbler
 * prairie ware
 * prairie white-fringed orchid, prairie white-fringed orchis
 * prairie willow
 * prairie wolf
 * prairie wool
 * queen of the prairie, queen-of-the-prairie
 * restored prairie
 * salt prairie
 * shaking prairie
 * short-grass prairie
 * Silicon Prairie
 * soda prairie
 * tall-grass prairie, tallgrass prairie
 * trembling prairie
 * urban prairie
 * virgin prairie

Related terms

 * Prairial
 * prairillon

Adjectives for Prairie
bleak; naked; blessed; spacious; teeming carpeted; flowery; unbroken; corn-bladed stubble-lined; wild; beautiful; short-turfed great; undulating; sun-browned; verdant rolling; broken; shaking.

Verbs for Prairie
course—; dwell on—; inhabit—; retire to—; ride—; roam—; traverse—; trek across—; view—; wander over—; wend across—; --blazes; —bores; —confronts; —extends.

Thesaurus
Lebensraum, agricultural region, air space, alkali flat, alluvial plain, arable land, back country, basin, billiard table, black belt, bottomland, bowling green, bushveld, campo, champaign, champaign country, citrus belt, clear space, clearance, clearing, coastal plain, corn belt, cotton belt, countryside, dead flat, dead level, delta, desert, distant prospect, down, downs, dust bowl, earth, empty view, esplanade, farm belt, farm country, farmland, fell, flat, flat country, flatland, flats, floor, fruit belt, glade, grass, grass roots, grass veld, grassland, grazing, grazing region, ground, haugh, haughland, heath, highlands, homaloid, horizontal, horizontal axis, horizontal fault, horizontal line, horizontal parallax, horizontal plane, horizontal projection, lande, lea, ledge, level, level line, level plane, living space, llano, lowland, lowlands, lunar mare, mare, mead, meadow, meadow land, meadows and pastures, mean sea level, mesa, mesilla, moor, moorland, moors, open country, open space, outback, pampa, pampas, park, parterre, pasturage, pasture, pasture land, peneplain, plain, plains, plane, plateau, platform, playa, prairies, province, provinces, range, rural district, rustic region, salt flat, salt marsh, salt pan, savanna, sea level, sea of grass, sebkha, steppe, steppeland, steppes, swale, table, tableland, terrace, terrain, territory, the country, the soil, the sticks, tobacco belt, tree veld, tundra, upland, uplands, vega, veld, water level, weald, wheat belt, wide-open spaces, wilderness, wold, woodland, woods and fields, yokeldom

Etymology
From prairie.

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Noun

 * 1) meadow, grassland, pasture, prairie

Etymology
praerie, from pratum.

Anagrams

 * périrai
 * prierai
 * riperai