ETYM French, an extensive meadow, Old Fren. praerie, Late Lat. prataria, from Latin pratum a meadow.
A treeless grassy plain.
The central North American plain, formerly grass-covered, extending over most of the region between the Rocky Mountains on the W and the Great Lakes and Ohio River on the e.
Poljana, ledina, tratina, pašnjak, utrina.
Livada; naročito: ogromna, travom obrasla ravnica, bez drveća, u Severnoj Americi. (lat.)
Velika, pusta i suva ravnica u Rusiji, sa travama i biljkama koje mogu da podnose sušu.