| 单词 | prairie |
| 释义 | prairie (once / 374 pages) n 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. WORD FAMILYprairie: prairies USAGE EXAMPLESThe Prairie Stars trailed by just three at intermission and remained within striking distance on the strength of 8-for-22 shooting from deep. Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) The documents say Wills was drinking at a Sun Prairie bar for more than an hour before the crash. Washington Times(Dec 30, 2016) Not yet two months into his tour, Siatta was no longer a naïve kid from the prairie. New York Times(Dec 28, 2016) n a treeless grassy plain Exp|Hyper 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 grassland land where grass or grasslike vegetation grows and is the dominant form of plant life |
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