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Definition of Prairie smoke
1. Noun. North American perennial with hairy basal pinnate leaves and purple flowers and plume-tipped fruits.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prairie Smoke
Literary usage of Prairie smoke
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1922)
"... McGraw-Hill $5 Financial Publishing Company Gilmore, Melvin Randolph Prairie
smoke; a collection of lore of the prairies ; 2nd ed., revised. ..."
2. Recollections of a Busy Life by Horace Greeley, Robert Dale Owen (1869)
"The dense fog, beaten down by the cool air, lay low on this marsh, and was heavily
charged with prairie-smoke for a part of the way. Three miles from C., ..."
3. Environmental Theology by Richard Cartwright Austin (1990)
"Quoted in Joseph Epes Brown, The Spiritual Legacy of the American Indian (New
York: Crossroad, 1982), 40 [from Melvin R. Gilmore, prairie smoke (New York: ..."
4. Recollections of a Busy Life by Horace Greeley, Robert Dale Owen (1868)
"The dense fog, beaten down by the cool air, lay low on this marsh, and was heavily
charged with prairie-smoke for a part of the way. Three miles from C., ..."
5. Recollections of a Busy Life by Horace Greeley, Robert Dale Owen (1868)
"The dense fog, beaten down by the cool air, lay low on this marsh, and was heavily
charged with prairie-smoke for ..."
6. Adventure Guide to Michigan by Kevin Hillstrom (1998)
"More than 100 different plant species thrive in these patches, including Indian
grass, June grass, heath aster, prairie cinquefoil, prairie smoke, ..."
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