shortgrass
English
Etymology
short + grass
Noun
shortgrass (usually uncountable, plural shortgrasses)
- The set of short, tough grasses that thrive in arid plains; often specifically the native grasses of the North American Great Plains.
- 1988 May 20, Jerry Sullivan, “Field & Street”, in Chicago Reader:
- The original centers of abundance of upland sandpipers were the shortgrass and mixed-grass prairies of the Great Plains.
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Coordinate terms
- (grasses): tallgrass