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 Examples- Only about 5 per cent of native prairie is left in Kansas.堪萨斯州只剩下大约5％的当地草原。
- 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
Topics Geographyc2Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjectiveverb + prairieprairie + nounpreposition- across the prairie
- on the prairie
See full entry Word Originlate 18th cent.: from French, from Old French praerie, from Latin pratum ‘meadow’.