prairie

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From French prairie.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈpɹɛəɹi/ (in accents without the "Mary-merry merger")
• IPA: [ˈpɹɛɹi] (in accents with the "Mary-merry merger")
• Rhymes: -ɛəɹi

Noun

prairie (plural prairies)

1. an extensive area of relatively flat grassland with few, if any, trees, especially in North America

Derived terms

terms derived from prairie

California coastal prairie camas prairie Canadian Prairies coastal prairie dry-mesic prairie pomme de prairie prairie alligator prairie anemone prairie apple prairie aster prairie-bean prairie berry prairie bird's-foot trefoil prairie bitters prairie bottom prairie-brant prairie-breaker prairie-breaking prairie buffalo prairie-burdock prairie-buster prairie button snakeroot prairie chicken Prairie City prairie climate prairie clipper prairie clover prairie coal prairie cock prairie cocktail prairie coneflower prairie conjunctivitis prairie cordgrass prairie crab prairie crab apple Prairie Cree prairie crocus prairie-cup prairied prairie dock prairie dog prairiedom prairie dropseed prairie falcon prairie-fire prairie-formation prairie fowl prairie fox prairie gentian prairie golden aster prairie-goose prairie gourd prairie gourd vine prairie grass prairie grass pink prairie grouse prairie hare prairie hawk prairie hen prairie itch prairie lake prairie loo prairie lotus prairie madness prairie mallow prairie marmot

prairie mimosa prairie mole prairie orchid prairie owl prairie oyster prairie pea prairie phase prairie pigeon prairie plough, prairie plow prairie plover prairie potato prairie pothole Prairie Provinces prairie rattler prairie rattlesnake prairie-renovator prairie rent prairie restoration prairie rocket prairie rose prairie sage prairie sagewort Prairie School prairie schooner prairie ship prairie shrew prairie skink prairie skirt prairie smoke prairie snake prairie snipe prairie soil Prairie Spy prairie squint prairie squirrel prairie star Prairie State Prairie style prairie sunflower prairie trefoil prairie trillium prairie turnip prairie vole prairie value Prairie Village prairie wagon prairie wake-robin prairie warbler prairie ware prairie white-fringed orchid, prairie white-fringed orchis prairie willow prairie wolf prairie wool queen of the prairie, queen-of-the-prairie restored prairie salt prairie shaking prairie short-grass prairie Silicon Prairie soda prairie tall-grass prairie, tallgrass prairie trembling prairie urban prairie virgin prairie

Related terms

• Prairial
• prairillon

Translations

An extensive area of relatively flat grassland

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 草原 (cmn) (cǎoyuán)

• Czech: prérie (cs) f
• Danish: prærie (da) c
• Estonian: preeria (et)
• Finnish: preeria (fi)
• French: prairie (fr) f
• German: Prärie (de) f
• Hungarian: préri (hu)
• Italian: prateria (it) f

• Lithuanian: prerija (lt) f
• Macedonian: прерија (mk) (prérija) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: prærie (no) m

  Nynorsk: prærie (nn) m

• Russian: прерия (ru) (prérija) f
• Serbo-Croatian: prȇrija (sh) f
• Spanish: pradera (es) f
• Swedish: prärie (sv) c
• Welsh: paith (cy) m

See also

• Prairie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• pampa
• savanna
• steppe

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French

Etymology

Old French praerie, from Latin pratum (“meadow”) + -aria, -arium

Pronunciation

• IPA: /pʁɛʁi/

• Audio

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Noun

prairie f (plural prairies)

1. meadow, grassland, pasture, prairie

Anagrams

• périrai, prierai, riperai