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GREAT PLAINS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
Great Plains; Great Plains of North America
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
prairie (a treeless grassy plain)
Meronyms (parts of "Great Plains"):
dust bowl (a region subject to dust storms; especially the central region of United States subject to dust storms in the 1930s)
Llano Estacado (a large semiarid plateau forming the southern part of the Great Plains)
Holonyms ("Great Plains" is a part of...):
North America (a continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama)
