shortgrass
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of shortgrass
Example Sentences
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CHEYENNE, Wyo.—Twenty years ago, Stan and Tammy Higgins moved into a home just outside this Old West railroad town on 3 acres of windswept shortgrass prairie.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
The chestnut-collared longspur, which lives in the northern shortgrass prairie and sings as it flies.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2023
More than 300 species of birds live in or migrate throughout the shortgrass prairie here, nourished by a diversity of insects that may thrive in part by the ways that bison wallow.
From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2023
Each autumn in southeast Colorado, hordes of fuzzy, fist-sized male tarantulas emerge from their burrows to scour the shortgrass prairie for mates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2022
The new expansion also will preserve what Haaland called one of the largest intact shortgrass prairie ecosystems within the National Park system.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 5, 2022
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