SHORT-GRASS PRAIRIE

Meaning of SHORT-GRASS PRAIRIE in English

[short-grass prairie] n (1844): prairie 2b

Merriam-Webster English vocab. Английский словарь Merriam Webster. 2012

SHORT-GRASS PRAIRIE — noun Date: 1844 prairie 2b
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
SHORT-GRASS PRAIRIE — noun Date: 1844 : prairie 2b
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SHORT-GRASS PRAIRIE — Pronunciation: ' sho ̇ rt- ˌ gras- Function: noun Date: 1844 : PRAIRIE 2B
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
PRAIRIE — [F] n prairie
Interlingua English vocab
PRAIRIE — prería
English interlingue dictionary
PRAIRIE — noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: French, from Old French praierie, from Vulgar Latin *prataria, from Latin pratum meadow Date: circa …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
PRAIRIE — I Level or rolling grassland, especially that found in central North America. Decreasing amounts of rainfall, from 40 in. (100 …
Английский словарь Британика
GRASS — I Any of many low, green, nonwoody plants that make up the families Poaceae (or Gramineae), Cyperaceae ( rush es). …
Английский словарь Британика
SHORT — I. ˈshȯ(ə)r]t, -ȯ(ə)], usu ]d.+V\ adjective ( -er/-est ) Etymology: Middle English short, shert, from Old English scort, sceort; akin …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
GRASS — I. ˈgras, -aa(ə)-, -ai-, -ȧ- noun ( -es ) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English gras, from Old English græs; …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
PRAIRIE — ˈprerē, -ri also ˈpra(a)r- or ˈprār-, chiefly substand pəˈr- noun ( -s ) Usage: often attributive Etymology: French, from Old …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
PRAIRIE — (n.) A meadow or tract of grass; especially, a so called natural meadow.
Английский словарь Webster
PRAIRIE — (n.) An extensive tract of level or rolling land, destitute of trees, covered with coarse grass, and usually characterized by …
Английский словарь Webster
PRAIRIE — ( n. ) An extensive tract of level or rolling land, destitute of trees, covered with coarse grass, and usually …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
PRAIRIE — ( n. ) A meadow or tract of grass; especially, a so called natural meadow.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
SHORT — — shortness , n. /shawrt/ , adj., shorter, shortest , adv., n., v. adj. 1. having little length; not long. …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
PRAIRIE — — prairielike , adj. /prair"ee/ , n. 1. an extensive, level or slightly undulating, mostly treeless tract of land in …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
GRASS — — grassless , adj. — grasslike , adj. — grassward, grasswards , adv. adj. /gras, grahs/ , n. 1. any …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
GRASS — v. cover with grass; feed grass to livestock; produce grass; inform on (British Slang)
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
SHORT — I. ˈshȯrt adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Old English sceort; akin to Old High German scurz short, Old Norse skortr …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
GRASS — I. ˈgras noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English gras, from Old English græs; akin to Old High German gras …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SHORT — noun a summary account. 2. short ·noun short, inferior hemp. 3. short ·noun breeches; shortclothes. 4. short ·noun a short …
Webster English vocab
PRAIRIE — noun a meadow or tract of grass; especially, a so called natural meadow. 2. prairie ·noun an extensive tract of …
Webster English vocab
GRASS — vi to produce grass. 2. grass ·noun the season of fresh grass; spring. 3. grass ·vt to cover with grass …
Webster English vocab
SHORT — [short] adj [ME, fr. OE sceort; akin to OHG scurz short, ON skortr lack] (bef. 12c) 1 a: having little …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
GRASS — [grass] n, often attrib [ME gras, fr. OE graes; akin to OHG gras grass, OE growan to grow] (bef. 12c) …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
PRAIRIE — level or rolling grassland, especially that found in central North America. Decreasing amounts of rainfall, from 100 cm (about 40 …
Britannica English vocabulary
PRAIRIE — prairie BrE AmE ˈpreər i AmE \ ˈprer i ▷ prairie|s z ▶ ˈ prairie dog BrE AmE ▶ ˌ …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
GRASS — grass, Grass BrE AmE ɡrɑːs § ɡræs AmE ɡræs —German [ ɡras ] ▷ grassed ɡrɑːst § ɡræst AmE ɡræst …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
SHORT — / ʃɔːt; NAmE ʃɔːrt/ adjective , adverb , noun , verb ■ adjective ( short·er , short·est ) LENGTH / …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
GRASS — / grɑːs; NAmE græs/ noun , verb ■ noun 1. [ U ] a common wild plant with narrow green …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SHORT — I. short 1 S1 W1 /ʃɔːt $ ʃɔːrt/ BrE AmE adjective ( comparative shorter , superlative shortest ) [ Word …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
GRASS — I. grass 1 S2 W2 /ɡrɑːs $ ɡræs/ BrE AmE noun [ Language: Old English ; Origin: græs ] 1 …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
SHORT — adj., adv., n., & v. --adj. 1 a measuring little; not long from end to end (a short distance). b …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
PRAIRIE — n. a large area of usu. treeless grassland esp. in N. America. øprairie chicken (or hen) a N. American grouse, …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
GRASS — n. & v. --n. 1 a vegetation belonging to a group of small plants with green blades that are eaten …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
SHORT — adj., adv., n., & v. adj. 1 a measuring little; not long from end to end (a short distance). b …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
PRAIRIE — n. a large area of usu. treeless grassland esp. in n. America. prairie chicken (or hen) a n. American grouse, …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
GRASS — n. & v. n. 1 a vegetation belonging to a group of small plants with green blades that are eaten …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
SHORT — adj., adv., n., & v. --adj. 1. a measuring little; not long from end to end (a short distance). b …
Oxford English vocab
PRAIRIE — n. a large area of usu. treeless grassland esp. in N. America. Phrases and idioms: prairie chicken (or hen) a …
Oxford English vocab
GRASS — n. & v. --n. 1. a vegetation belonging to a group of small plants with green blades that are eaten …
Oxford English vocab
SHORT — I. ADJECTIVE AND ADVERB USES /ʃɔ:(r)t/ ( shorter, shortest) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
PRAIRIE — ( prairies) A prairie is a large area of flat, grassy land in North America. Prairies have very few trees. …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
GRASS — ( grasses, grassing, grassed) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Grass is …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
PRAIRIE — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES prairie dog EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A whole succession of prairie branches was built to …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
GRASS — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES artificial grass ▪ artificial grass tennis courts dry grass ▪ There had been no …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
PRAIRIE — [noun] - a wide area of flat land without trees in Canada and the northern US which was originally covered …
Cambridge English vocab
PRAIRIE — n. prairie chicken prairie dog Prairie school
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
PRAIRIE — n. Level or rolling grassland, especially that found in central North America. Decreasing amounts of rainfall, from 40 in. (100 …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
GRASS — n. bear grass bent grass couch grass quack grass Grass Günter Wilhelm
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
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Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
GRASS — Synonyms and related words : Bengal grass, DET, DMT, English rye grass, Italian rye grass, Kentucky bluegrass, LSD, Mary Jane, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
PRAIRIE — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ high ▪ open , rolling , vast , wide ▪ northern , western , etc. ▪ native …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
GRASS — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ green ▪ coarse , rough , thick ▪ soft ▪ lush ▪ long , tall ▪ short …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
SHORT — INDEX: short/not long 1. short in length or distance 2. when something you say or write is short 3. to …
Longman Activator English vocab
SHORT — n. 25B6; adjective a short piece of string : SMALL, little, tiny; informal teeny. short people : SMALL, little, petite, …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
GRASS — n. 25B6; noun he sat down on the grass : TURF, sod; lawn, green. See list. (informal) they smoked grass. …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
PRAIRIE — A tract of level to hilly land that has a dominance of grasses and forbs, has a scarcity of shrubs, …
Environmental Engineering English vocabulary
SHORT — adj. 1 small, little, slight, petite, diminutive, wee, tiny, elfin, minuscule; midget, dwarfish, squat, dumpy, runty, stubby, stunted, Colloq pint-sized, …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
SHORT — 1. прил. 1) а) короткий, недлинный short legs ≈ короткие ноги a short road ≈ недлинный путь short way off …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
PRAIRIE — сущ. 1) прерия, степь, саванна Syn : plain, steppe 2) амер. диал. болото прерия, степь - P.State штат Прерий (Иллинойс) …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
GRASS — 1. сущ. 1) а) трава, травинка; дерн to cut, mow (the) grass ≈ косить траву high, tall grass ≈ высокая …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь

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