PRAIRIE

Pronunciation (US):

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 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)

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