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- Prairie - n. - An extensive tract of level or rolling land, destitute of trees, covered with coarse grass, and usually characterized by a deep, fertile soil. They abound throughout the Mississippi valley, between the Alleghanies and the Rocky mountains.
- Prairie - n. - A meadow or tract of grass; especially, a so called natural meadow.
- Whitebelly - n. - The prairie chicken.
- Pomme blanche - - The prairie turnip. See under Prairie.
- Cove - n. - A strip of prairie extending into woodland; also, a recess in the side of a mountain.
- Backset - v. i. - To plow again, in the fall; -- said of prairie land broken up in the spring.
- Wishtonwish - n. - The prairie dog.
- Marmot - n. - Any one of several species of ground squirrels or gophers of the genus Spermophilus; also, the prairie dog.
- Tympanum - n. - One of the naked, inflatable air sacs on the neck of the prairie chicken and other species of grouse.
- Wolf - a. - Any one of several species of wild and savage carnivores belonging to the genus Canis and closely allied to the common dog. The best-known and most destructive species are the European wolf (Canis lupus), the American gray, or timber, wolf (C. occidentalis), and the prairie wolf, or coyote. Wolves often hunt in packs, and may thus attack large animals and even man.
- Lugger - n. - An Indian falcon (Falco jugger), similar to the European lanner and the American prairie falcon.
- Gopher - n. - One of several western American species of the genus Spermophilus, of the family Sciuridae; as, the gray gopher (Spermophilus Franklini) and the striped gopher (S. tridecemlineatus); -- called also striped prairie squirrel, leopard marmot, and leopard spermophile. See Spermophile.
- Hawk - n. - One of numerous species and genera of rapacious birds of the family Falconidae. They differ from the true falcons in lacking the prominent tooth and notch of the bill, and in having shorter and less pointed wings. Many are of large size and grade into the eagles. Some, as the goshawk, were formerly trained like falcons. In a more general sense the word is not infrequently applied, also, to true falcons, as the sparrow hawk, pigeon hawk, duck hawk, and prairie hawk.
- Sharptail - n. - The pintail grouse, or prairie chicken.