prairie
Other forms: prairies
A prairie is a plain of grassy land without many trees. If you're raising cattle, find some prairie land to let them roam around on.
Prairie means grassland, and comes from the French word for "meadow." While we might describe a single meadow, we usually use prairie to describe a type of countryside. In the United States, the natural state of the land between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains is prairie, which is why there's so much farming there.
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a treeless grassy plainexamples:Great Plains of North Americaa 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 Americanstype of:grasslandland where grass or grasslike vegetation grows and is the dominant form of plant life
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