An extensive area of relatively flat grassland with few, if any, trees, especially in America.
(RQ:Jefferies Amateur Poacher)
(l) (defdate)
1831, James Fenimore Cooper, ''De prairie, of Grazige woestijn van Noord-Amerika'', vol. 1, tr. from English, A. & J. Honkoop (publ.), page 339.
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meadow, grassland, pasture, (l)