shortgrass
nounEtymology From short + grass.
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Usually The set of short, tough grasses that thrive in arid plains; often specifically the native grasses of the North American Great Plains.
- The original centers of abundance of upland sandpipers were the shortgrass and mixed-grass prairies of the Great Plains.1988 May 20, Jerry Sullivan, “Field & Street”, in Chicago Reader:
- Coordinate terms
- tallgrass