short-grass
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6.9
- noun
- US
:
pasto corto
- As he scanned the snowy short-grass plains stretching away to the blue mountains of the Backbone, he began to be afraid.
- short-grass plains
Examples
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Grazed short-grass prairie has more individuals of fewer species.
Academic text (2002) -
Ahead lay the vast short-grass prairie of southern Kansas, where buffalo come together to carpet the earth.
Fiction book (1995) -
But from June through October, there is little or no rain, and the green of the short-grass plains turns to tan.
Academic text (2006) -
The federal government already owns large short-grass and mixed-grass tracts, and many more of both are for sale.
Academic text (2002) -
After ranging the short-grass plains for six or seven months, the Serengeti wildebeests abandon them soon after the long rains end in May.
Academic text (2006) -
At the golf course border, she'd skid in the short grass, her hoof paws digging into turf.
Fiction book (1992) -
Hunt and colleagues (1987) include mycorrhizae in their description of the soil food webs of the North American short-grass steppe.
Academic text (2006) -
I am moving through short grass, in furs, with matted hair and a spear, thin and hard as the ice itself, all muscle and implacable cunning.
Fiction book (1992) -
The wildebeest's feeding apparatus—a wide muzzle, a broad row of incisors, and flexible lips—is well adapted for taking big bites of short grass.
Academic text (2006) -
The photographer captured the beauty of the short-grass prairie at sunset.
Synonyms
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7.0
Grass that stays short and grows on dry plains
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4.4
A low, tough grass used for lawns that needs little water
How Tall
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Short-grass comes from the English words short ('not tall') and grass ('a green plant'), so it literally names grass that stays low. This helps you remember it is the kind of grass that lives in dry plains and can survive little rain, which is why we use the word for those drought‑resistant prairie plants.