prairie 的定义
- 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.
- a tract of grassland; meadow.
- a low, sandy tract of grassland often covered with water.
- Southern U.S. wet grassland; marsh.
- a steam locomotive having a two-wheeled front truck, six driving wheels, and a two-wheeled rear truck.
prairie 近义词
grassland
更多prairie例句
- These underwater prairies also support near-shore and offshore fisheries, and protect coastlines as well as other marine habitats.
- The journey took them through Ohio to Illinois, across the prairie, then south toward the deserts.
- Usually, when scientists talk about prairies, they are referring to the grasslands in North America.
- There, prairies stretch from the area east of the Rocky Mountains to the Mississippi River.
- That has put prairies in danger, as people have plowed under many grasslands to grow crops.
- He stands, one assumes on a porch, which overlooks a prairie.
- One year later and 10 blocks away, my mother came into the world, the granddaughter of those pioneers who had roamed the prairie.
- There, abandoned “ghost towns” populate the prairie fields and deserts, serving as a reminder of a not-so-distant past.
- Harvey now lives in the central prairie province of Saskatchewan, Canadian news reports say, along with her husband and son.
- Because there is always this about the land, about prairie and pond and mountain: they never go away.
- This, thought I, is a dismal-looking outcome—two men and a dead horse left high and dry on the sun-flooded prairie.
- Not while I had the open prairie underfoot and the summer sky above, and hands to strike a blow or pull a trigger.
- "We'll be blamed lucky if we don't run into a prairie-fire before mornin'," Piegan grumbled.
- One company also has irrigation works, and ready-made farms for settlers in the prairie provinces.
- The sergeant went out, and when the beat of hoofs sank into the silence of the prairie, Winston called Courthorne in.