Great Plains of North America

Great Plains of North America
noun
a vast prairie region extending from Alberta and Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada south through the west central United States into Texas; formerly inhabited by Native Americans
Syn: ↑Great Plains
Instance Hypernyms: ↑prairie
Part Holonyms: ↑North America
Part Meronyms: ↑dust bowl, ↑Llano Estacado

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

Игры ⚽ Поможем сделать НИР

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Great Lakes region (North America) — The Great Lakes region includes much of the Canadian province of Ontario and portions of eight U.S. states that border the Great Lakes: New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota. The entire Canadian Great… …   Wikipedia

  • North America — noun 1. a continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama (Freq. 4) • Members of this Region: ↑Plantation, ↑continental divide, ↑Latin America, ↑canyon, ↑canon, ↑plainsman …   Useful english dictionary

  • Great Plains — noun a vast prairie region extending from Alberta and Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada south through the west central United States into Texas; formerly inhabited by Native Americans • Syn: ↑Great Plains of North America • Instance Hypernyms:… …   Useful english dictionary

  • Great Plains — For other uses, see Great Plains (disambiguation). Coordinates: 37°N 97°W / 37°N 97°W / 37; 97 …   Wikipedia

  • North America — North American. the northern continent of the Western Hemisphere, extending from Central America to the Arctic Ocean. Highest point, Mt. McKinley, 20,300 ft. (6187 m); lowest, Death Valley, 276 ft. (84 m) below sea level. 400,000,000 including… …   Universalium

  • North America — North American redirects here. For other uses, see North American (disambiguation). North America Area …   Wikipedia

  • Great Plains Zoo — Delbridge Museum The entrance to the Great Plains Zoo and Delbridge Museum. Date opened 30 June 1963 [1] Location Sioux Falls …   Wikipedia

  • Great Plains (disambiguation) — Great Plains can be:* Great Plains region in the central North America * Great Plains (band), an American music group * Great Plains Airlines, a defunct airline * Great Plains Communications, a telecommunications company in Nebraska * Great… …   Wikipedia

  • Great Plains — sloping region of valleys & plains in WC North America, extending from Tex. north to S Alberta, Canada, & stretching east from the base of the Rocky Mountains for c. 400 mi (644 km) …   English World dictionary

  • Great Plains — a semiarid region E of the Rocky Mountains, in the U.S. and Canada. * * * Continental slope of central North America. It stretches from the Rio Grande at the U.S. Mexico border in the south to the Mackenzie River delta along the Arctic Ocean in… …   Universalium

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”