a flat, wide area of land in North America and Canada, without many trees and originally covered with grass 北美草原;新大陆北部草原(美国北部和加拿大) Extra ExamplesTopics Geographyc2Only about 5 per cent of native prairie is left in Kansas. 堪萨斯州只剩下大约5%的本土草原。 The North American prairie was once the world's largest grassland. 北美草原曾经是世界上最大的草原。 a train of covered wagons crossing the wide American prairies 一队正穿越广阔的美洲大草原的篷车 settlers' houses on the prairies of Canada 加拿大草原上定居者的房舍 their route across the prairie 他们穿越草原的路线
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- high
- open
- rolling
- …
- cross
- grass
- fire
- across the prairie
- on the prairie
Word Originlate 18th cent.: from French, from Old French praerie, from Latin pratum ‘meadow’.