noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ high
▪ open , rolling , vast , wide
▪ northern , western , etc.
▪ native
▪
Only about 5% of native ~ is left in Kansas.
▪ tall-grass ( esp. AmE )
VERB + PRAIRIE
▪ cross
▪
a train of covered wagons crossing the wide American ~s
PRAIRIE + NOUN
▪ grass
▪ fire ( AmE , figurative )
▪
His charges spread like a ~ fire.
PREPOSITION
▪ across the ~
▪
their route across the ~
▪ on the ~
▪
settlers' houses on the ~s of Canada