Definition of "short-grass" [short-grass]

• Any of various grasses that are short and can tolerate drought conditions; common on the dry upland plains just east of the Rocky Mountains (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Happy Poetry Month to the long-grass and the short-grass plains …."
• "Edible Chenopodium, Indian ricegrass, sego lily roots, yucca, biscuit-root, bloodroot and many other nutritious and medicinal plants still grow here.27 The soil, though alkaline as short-grass soils are, has been enriched by centuries of river and creek silt deposition."
• "So the Regional Transportation District hopes to find them several hundred acres of short-grass prairie."