shortgrass

English

Etymology

short +‎ grass

Noun

shortgrass (usually uncountable, plural shortgrasses)

  1. The set of short, tough grasses that thrive in arid plains; often specifically the native grasses of the North American Great Plains.
    • 1988 May 20, Jerry Sullivan, “Field & Street”, in Chicago Reader‎:
      The original centers of abundance of upland sandpipers were the shortgrass and mixed-grass prairies of the Great Plains.

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