shortgrass
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
shortgrass (usually uncountable, plural shortgrasses)
- 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[1]:
- The original centers of abundance of upland sandpipers were the shortgrass and mixed-grass prairies of the Great Plains.
Coordinate terms edit
- (grasses): tallgrass