prairie

See also: Prairie

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French prairie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɛəɹi/
• IPA^(key): [ˈpɹɛɹi]

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɛəɹi

Noun

prairie (plural prairies)

1. An extensive area of relatively flat grassland with few, if any, trees, especially in North America.
   • 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:

     It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.

Derived terms

terms derived from prairie

• California coastal prairie
• camas prairie
• Canadian Prairies
• coastal prairie
• dry-mesic prairie
• Long Prairie
• pomme de prairie (), syn. )
• prairie alligator (Phasmida)
• prairie anemone ()
• prairie apple ()
• prairie aster (, syn. , )
  • white prairie aster (, now )
  • creeping white prairie aster (, syn. )
• prairie bean ()
• prairie berry ()
• prairie bird's-foot trefoil ()
• prairie bitters
• prairie bottom
• prairie brant (Anser albifrons)
• prairie-breaker
• prairie-breaking
• prairie buffalo (Bison bison)
• prairie burdock ()
• prairie-buster
• prairie button snakeroot ()
• prairie chicken (Tympanuchus spp.)
• Prairie City
• prairie climate
• prairie clipper
• prairie clover (Dalea spp.)
• prairie coal
• prairie cock (Tympanuchus spp.)
• prairie cocktail
• prairie coneflower ()
• prairie conjunctivitis
• prairie cordgrass ()
• Prairie County
• prairie crab, prairie crab apple, prairie crabapple ()
• Prairie Cree
• prairie crocus ()
• prairie cupgrass ()
• prairied
• prairie deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus)
• prairie dock (, , )
• prairie dog (Cynomys spp.)
• prairiedom
• prairie dropseed ()
• prairie falcon (Falco mexicanus)
• prairie false-dandelion ()
• prairie-fire
• prairie-formation
• prairie fowl
• prairie fox (Vulpes macrotis, Vulpes velox)
• prairie gentian (, syn. )
• prairie golden aster (, syn. )
• prairie goldenrod ()
• prairie goose (Branta canadensis)
• prairie gourd, prairie gourd vine ()
• prairie grass pink ()
• prairie grouse (Tympanuchus phasianellus)
• prairie hare ()
• prairie hen (Tympanuchus spp.)
• prairie itch
• prairie lake
• prairie lizard ()
• prairie loo
• prairie lotus ()
• prairie madness
• prairie mallow ( spp.)
• prairie marmot (Cynomys spp.)

• prairie mimosa ()
• prairie mole cricket ()
• prairie orchid ( spp.)
• prairie owl ()
• prairie oyster
• prairie pea (, syn. )
• prairie phase
• prairie pigeon (Numenius borealis)
• prairie plough, prairie plow
• prairie plover (Charadrius montanus)
• prairie potato ( (), syn. )
• prairie pothole
• Prairie Provinces
• prairie ragwort (, (syn. ))
• prairie rattler, prairie rattlesnake (, )
• prairie-renovator
• prairie rent
• prairie restoration
• prairie rocket ()
• prairie rose (, (wild prairie rose), , syn. , Rosa blanda)
• prairie sage (, )
• prairie sagewort ()
• Prairie School
• prairie schooner
• prairie ship
• prairie shrew ()
• prairie skink ()
• prairie skirt
• prairie smoke ( et al)
• prairie snake ()
  • prairie hognose snake ()
  • prairie kingsnake ()
• prairie snipe (Bartramia longicauda)
• prairie soil
• Prairie Spy
• prairie squint
• prairie squirrel ( spp. - gopher)
• prairie star
  • smooth prairie star ()
• Prairie State
• Prairie style
• prairie sunflower ()
• prairie thistle ()
• prairie trefoil ()
• prairie trillium ()
• prairie turnip (), syn. )
• prairie vole ()
• prairie value
• prairie vetchling (, syn. )
• 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 (, syn. )
• 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 (zh) (cǎoyuán)

• Czech: prérie f
• Danish: prærie c
• Estonian: preeria
• Finnish: preeria (fi)
• French: prairie (fr) f
• Galician: pradaría f
• German: Prärie (de) f
• Hebrew: עֲרָבָה (he) f ('aravá)
• Hindi: प्रेरी (prerī)
• Hungarian: préri (hu)
• Italian: prateria (it) f
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• Lithuanian: prerija f
• Macedonian: прерија f (prerija)
• Navajo: halgai
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: prærie m

  Nynorsk: prærie m

• Plains Cree: ᐸᐢᑳᐧᐤ (paskwâw), ᒪᐢᑯᑌᐤ (maskotew)
• Portuguese: prado (pt) m, pradaria f
• Russian: пре́рия (ru) f (prérija)
• Serbo-Croatian: prȇrija (sh) f
• Spanish: pradera (es) f
• Swedish: prärie (sv) c
• Welsh: paith m

Coordinate terms

• pampa
• savanna
• steppe

Further reading

• prairie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English prairie, from French prairie, from Middle French [Term?], from Old French praerie, from Latin pratum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈprɛː.ri/, /ˈprɛ.ri/
• Hyphenation: prai‧rie

Noun

prairie f (plural prairies)

1. prairie [from ca. 1830s]
   • 1831, James Fenimore Cooper, De prairie, of Grazige woestijn van Noord-Amerika, vol. 1, tr. from English, A. & J. Honkoop (publ.), page 339.

     De slangen der Prairie zijn niet vergiftig, uitgezonderd eenige vergramde ratelslangen, welker ratel hen intusschen steeds aanmeldt, voor dat zij u eenig kwaad doen.

     The snakes of the prairie are not venomous, some angered rattlesnakes excepted, whose rattle in the meantime announces them each time, before they do any harm to you.

Derived terms

• prairiegras
• prairiehond
• prairie-indiaan
• prairiepaard
• prairiewolf

Related terms

• prairial
• prieel

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French

Etymology

From Old French praerie, from Latin pratum (“meadow”) + -aria, -arium. See also pré and -erie. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. in Old French inherited or borrowed from Latin

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁɛ.ʁi/ ~ /pʁe.ʁi/

• Audio:

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Noun

prairie f (plural prairies)

1. meadow, grassland, pasture, prairie

Further reading

• “prairie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• périrai, prierai, riperai