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prairillon

prairillon noun: a little prairie.

Noun

prairillon (plural prairillons)

  1. A little prairie.
    • Straight before us rose the Rattlesnake Hills, […] while at their feet flowed the little river […] purling over its pebbly bed with graceful meanderings through clover prairillons and garden-spots full of wild currants, strawberries, gooseberries, and rattlesnakes; […]1862, Richard Francis Burton, The City of the Saints

Forms of prairillon

pluralprairillons

Origin of prairillon

Borrowed from French prairillon, from prairie + -illon.

Questions about prairillon

What does prairillon mean?
Prairillon means a little prairie.
What part of speech is prairillon?
Prairillon is a noun.
What is the plural of prairillon?
The plural of prairillon is prairillons.

Words near prairillon in the dictionary

  1. prairieland
  2. prairielands
  3. prairielike
  4. prairies
  5. Prairiewood
  6. prairillon
  7. prairillons
  8. prais'd
  9. praisability
  10. praisable
  11. praisably

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