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shortgrasses

shortgrasses is the plural of shortgrass.

Meaning of shortgrass

Noun

shortgrass (usually uncountable, plural shortgrasses)

  1. (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

Questions about shortgrasses

What is shortgrasses the plural of?
Shortgrasses is the plural of shortgrass.

Words near shortgrasses in the dictionary

  1. shortform
  2. shortgevity
  3. shortgown
  4. shortgowns
  5. shortgrass
  6. shortgrasses
  7. shorth
  8. shorthair
  9. shorthaired
  10. shorthairs
  11. shorthand

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