Definitions
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- noun The set of short, tough
grasses that thrive in arid plains; often specifically the native grasses of the North AmericanGreat Plains
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- noun any of various grasses that are short and can tolerate drought conditions; common on the dry upland plains just east of the Rocky Mountains
Etymologies
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Examples
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Steppe, sometimes called shortgrass prairie, is a formation class of short grasses usually bunched and sparsely distributed.
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The vegetation is steppe, sometimes called shortgrass prairie, and semidesert.
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All you North Carolinians correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think there's a helluva lot of shortgrass prairie up that way.
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Moisture is a limiting factor in the rainshadow of the Rocky Mountains; as a result, drought resistant shortgrass and some mixed-grass prairie dominate the plains vegetation.
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The potential natural vegetation is mixed-grass prairie which includes a prevalence of shortgrass species, such as buffalograss, and it lacks the sagebrush component found in the neighboring Sagebrush Steppe (43e).
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Extensive farming of mostly wheat and barley occurs in parts of Ecoregion 42 and has replaced the original shortgrass prairie.
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As its name suggests, it contains a mixture of shortgrass and tallgrass species.
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Within Tanzania the area is important for retaining uncultivated lowland vegetation, for the arid and semi-arid plant communities below 1,300 m, for its abundant shortgrass grazing and for the water catchment highland forests.
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This region, called mixed-grass steppe, reaches from the tallgrass prairie parkland to the shortgrass steppe at about long.
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Salt pans punctuate the expanse of shortgrass prairie and dusky gray sagebrush.
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