Webster's English Dictionary

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prairie

prai.rie \'pre(*)r-e-\ n [F, fr. (assumed) VL prataria, fr. L pratum 
   meadow; akin to L pr] often attrib avus crooked, MIr ra-th earthworks : a 
   tract of grassland : as  : a large area of level or rolling land in the 
   Mississippi valley with ge nerally deep fertile soil, a cover of tall 
   coarse grasses, and few trees : one of the dry treeless plateaus into which 
   the prairies proper merge o n the west