Definitions
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of various grasses that are tall and that flourish with abundant moisture
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Examples
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It is a wet, dark muddy, tall-grass place of rebirth and regeneration.
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It was flat tall-grass prairie, the bits of flinty range where generations of farmers and ranchers had eked out life with their livestock.
Spoken from the Heart Laura Bush 2010
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It was flat tall-grass prairie, the bits of flinty range where generations of farmers and ranchers had eked out life with their livestock.
Spoken from the Heart Laura Bush 2010
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Habitats reduced now to a small fraction of their former extent include tall-grass prairie, fresh and salt water wetlands, old growth forests of most types, free-flowing rivers, coral reefs, undisturbed sandy beaches, and others.
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A loner-type teenager wearing a black t-shirt and white shorts stood in the center of a tall-grass field holding onto a kite string.
The Spear Master 2009
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The Southeastern Wisconsin Till Plains (53) ecoregion supports a mosaic of vegetation types and represents a transition between the hardwood forests and oak savannas of the ecoregions to the west and the tall-grass prairies of the Central Corn Belt Plains (54) to the south.
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Once covered with tall-grass prairie, over 75 percent of the Western Corn Belt Plains is now used for cropland agriculture, and much of the remainder is in forage for livestock.
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In the tall-grass prairie of Iowa, for example, typical grasses are big bluestem and little bluestem; a typical forb is black-eyed Susan.
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The PNV of the Chiwaukee Prairie Region is predominantly tall-grass prairie, in contrast to the southern mesic forest and oak savanna of the adjacent region to the north and west.
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The Southeastern Wisconsin Till Plains supports a mosaic of vegetation types, representing a transition between the hardwood forests and oak savannas of the ecoregions to the west and the tall-grass prairies of the Central Corn Belt Plains to the south.
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