Definition of "prairies" []

• Plural form of prairie. (noun)

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• ""All the high prairies (he says) abound with the silver-leafed _Psoralia_, which is the prairie turnip of the Americans, the _pomme des prairies_ of the Canadians, and furnishes an invaluable food to the Indians.""
• "The prairies of the West, with an undulating surface, _rolling prairies_, as they are called, present to the unaccustomed eye a singular spectacle when the shadows of the clouds are passing rapidly over them."
• "I guess living on the prairies is some excuse but I find beggars in Seattle, Mexico City or any city I've been in in the last 50 years (even where I work in some form)."