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Prairial

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• Prairie

  noun 1. an extensive, level or slightly undulating, mostly treeless tract of land in the Mississippi valley, characterized by a highly fertile soil and originally covered with coarse grasses, and merging into drier plateaus in the west. Compare pampas, savanna, steppe. 2. a tract of grassland; meadow. 3. (in Florida) a low, sandy tract of […]

• Prairie-breaker

  noun 1. breaker1 (def 6).

• Prairie-button-snakeroot

  noun 1. a stout composite plant, Liatris pycnostachya, of prairies in the central U.S., having showy, rose-purple flower heads in dense spikes.

• Prairie-chicken

  noun 1. either of two North American gallinaceous birds of western prairies, Tympanuchus cupido (greater prairie chicken) or T. pallidicinctus (lesser prairie chicken) having rufous, brown, black, and white plumage. 2. sharp-tailed grouse. prairie chicken noun 1. either of two mottled brown-and-white grouse, Tympanuchus cupido or T. pallidicinctus, of North America

• Prairie-clover

  noun 1. any plant belonging to the genus Petalostemon, of the legume family, common in western North America, having pinnately compound leaves and spikes of white, purple, or pink flowers.

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