prairie smoke

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noun

a plant Geum triflorum, of the rose family, native to North America, having purplish flowers and silky-plumed fruit.

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Also called Johnny smokers.

Origin of prairie smoke

An Americanism dating back to 1890–95

Words nearby prairie smoke

prairie rattlesnake, prairie rose, Prairie School, prairie schooner, prairie skirt, prairie smoke, prairie soil, Prairie State, Prairie style, prairie turnip, Prairie Village

How to use prairie smoke in a sentence

He stands, one assumes on a porch, which overlooks a prairie.
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When it comes to the increasing number of rape allegations leveled at Bill Cosby, the smoke is becoming impenetrable.
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You spice it with blues and skiffle music, and pickle it in alcohol and tobacco smoke.
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“At least it keeps the mosquitoes away,” one of my table-mates said, as we watched the swooshes of smoke waft into the Havana sky.
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Perhaps the guards at the Guantanamo Bay detention facilities will finally be allowed to smoke cubans, too.
Cigar Dealers Light Up Over Cuba News|Asawin Suebsaeng|December 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The young men gathered round him and offered him a cigar, which he accepted and began to smoke.
Music-Study in Germany|Amy Fay
After a bit of waiting, Mac decided that the smoke was floating from a certain direction, and we began to edge carefully that way.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
The smoke from her kitchen fire rose white as she put in dry sumac to give it a start.
The Bondboy|George W. (George Washington) Ogden
In most club card-rooms smoking is not permitted, but at the Pandemonium it is the fashion to smoke everywhere.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
When the smoke and dust cleared away nothing stirred on the whole of that piece of ground.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton