Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dense growth of shrubby timber covering a large area, of mixed composition but predominantly of shin-oak (which see).
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Examples
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The creature evolved in dunes anchored by shrub-like shinnery oaks, developing larger scales over its ear openings to keep sand out and long front toes to run up steep, sandy slopes.
Reptile Roils Oil Patch Ana Campoy 2011
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The creature evolved in dunes anchored by shrub-like shinnery oaks, developing larger scales over its ear openings to keep sand out and long front toes to run up steep, sandy slopes.
Reptile Roils Oil Patch Ana Campoy 2011
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The upland natural vegetation in this dry-subhumid area is mostly mixed grass prairie, but mesquite – buffalograss and shinnery are native, respectively, to the south and to sandy areas; potential natural vegetation is distinct from the short grass prairie of the semiarid High Plains (25), the tall grass prairie of Ecoregions 28 and 40, and the oak savanna of the Cross Timbers (29).
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The decline of the prairiechicken is linked to the conversion of shinnery to other uses.
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In addition, shinnery grows on sand flats and hills in the west, and short grass prairie is found on higher elevation, sandy sites in the northwest.
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The shinnery sands are habitat for the lesser prairie-chicken and sanddune lizard, two species that are in serious decline.
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The potential natural vegetation in this region is grama-buffalograss with some mesquite-buffalograss in the southeast, juniper-scrub oakmidgrass savanna on escarpment bluffs, and shinnery (midgrass prairie with low oak brush) along parts of the Canadian River.
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Lesser prairie-chickens, a unique grouse of the High Plains, inhabit shinnery oak and sand sagebrush habitats.
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The shinnery sands are habitat for the lesser prairie-chicken, a species that is in serious decline.
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The decline of the lizard is a signal that the sand/shinnery oak ecosystem is being altered.
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