Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A vast grassland region of central North America extending from the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba southward to Texas. Much of the area is used for cattle ranching and wheat farming.
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- proper noun The relatively flat
region ofNorth American grasslands east of theRocky Mountains , fromAlberta ,Saskatchewan , andManitoba in the north, toTexas in the south.
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- noun a vast prairie region extending from Alberta and Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada south through the west central United States into Texas; formerly inhabited by Native Americans
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Examples
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Great Plains, which is the fifth-largest independent Coca-Cola bottler in the U.S., has territories in Oklahoma and Arkansas.
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The Great Plains are the Saudi Arabia of wind, and the turbines — a tower can be up to 300 feet high, and each of the three blades weighs up to seven tons — are very expensive to transport.
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Yellowstone on vacation once it occurred to me that in that strip of the country called the Great Plains, they only have two things going for them: one is grass, the other is wind.
Harvey Wasserman: A Green-Powered Trip to Eco-Solartopia 2009
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One thing to consider: the Great Plains are a bear to cross in the summer.
Summer driving. Ann Althouse 2005
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Passing by the great valley of the Mississippi, the next division is the region known as the Great Plains, which extends from the 97th meridian of W. longitude to the base of the Rocky Mountains.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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This comprised the region about the Tusca, which boasted not less than fifty towns, the district known as the Great Plains, [850] which has been identified with the great basin of the Dakhla of the
A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885
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On the 14th and 15th, we passed what are called the Great Plains of the
Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific Gabriel Franchere 1824
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The Great Plains are a dynamic but often forgotten landscape -- overlooked, undervalued, misunderstood, and in desperate need of conservation.
WN.com - Articles related to French holiday firm debuts 'Eco-Nature' resorts 2010
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The Great Plains are a dynamic but often forgotten landscape -- overlooked, undervalued, misunderstood, and in desperate need of conservation.
WN.com - Articles related to French holiday firm debuts 'Eco-Nature' resorts 2010
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In the age of dinosaurs, North America was divided in two by the Western Interior Sea, and the Great Plains was a skeleton-covered sea bottom, the water above it home to sharks, squid, manta rays, giant clams, giant reptile mosasaurs and plesiosaurs, and plankton, a microscopic animal still thriving today.
Kansas.com: -- Front ROY WENZL 2010
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