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PRAIRIE (adopted from the Fr. prairie, a meadow-tract. Late Lat. prataria, Lat. pratum, meadow)

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 250 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: POL-PRE
PRAIRIE (adopted from the Fr. prairie, a meadow-tract. Late Lat. prataria, Lat. pratum, meadow) , a level
tract
  of grassy and treeless country, generally restricted to tracts so characterized in the central parts of North America. In the United States the prairies may be taken to extend from southern Michigan and western
Ohio
  over
Illinois
  (especially designated the Prairie State), Indiana, Missouri, Iowa,
Wisconsin
  and Minnesota, and west of the Missouri to the foothills of the Rocky Mountains (see articles on the several states, and UNITED STATES). In Canada they extend from the same mountains to a line somewhat to the
east
  of Winnipeg. The word prairie is used in a large number of compounds referring to natural and other features,
flora
 , fauna, &c., characteristic of the prairies. Examples are: prairie-chicken or prairie-hen, a name for the pinnated grouse (Cupidonia or Tympanucus cupido), also applied to Pedioecetes phasinellus, the
sharp
 -tailed grouse; prairie-dog, a rodent of the squirrel family, genus Cynomys, a gregarious burrowing animal, and other animals noticed below; prairie-schooner, a name for the covered wagons in which emigrants used to
cross
  the plains; prairie-grass, &c.


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