Definition of Great Plains of North America

1. 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.

Exact synonyms: Great Plains
Terms within: Dust Bowl, Llano Estacado
Generic synonyms: Prairie
Group relationships: North America

Lexicographical Neighbors of Great Plains Of North America

Great Dividing Range
Great Dog
Great Falls
Great Firewall of China
Great Galactic Ghoul
Great Lake
Great Lakes
Great Lakes State
Great Leap Forward
Great Lent
Great Mendenhall Glacier
Great Mother
Great Nebula in Andromeda
Great North Road
Great Plains
Great Plains of North America (current term)
Great Pox
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
Great Pyramid
Great Pyramid at Giza
Great Pyramid of Giza
Great Pyrenees
Great Red Spot
Great Revolt
Great Rift Valley
Great Russian
Great Salt Lake
Great Sandy Desert
Great Satan

Literary usage of Great Plains of North America

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1888)
"... of cattle and sheep replaces, to a great extent, the operations of agriculture. The most general name for the great plains of North America is ..."

2. The Mythology of All Races by John Arnott MacCulloch, Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, Alice Werner (1916)
"... from far beyond the tree line in the north to the deserts of northern Mexico, comprises the Great Plains of North America, the prairies, or grass lands, ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Fossil remains abundantly prove that the horse developed on the great plains of North America where it existed in extraordinary variety of size and form. ..."

4. The International Geography by Hugh Robert Mill (1915)
"Like the vast plains of eastern Europe and western Asia, the Great Plains of North America stretch over so great a distance on theEarth 's convex surface ..."

5. The World's Food Resources by Joseph Russell Smith (1919)
"CATTLE ON THE Great Plains of North America The large open plain west of the one hundredth meridian in central North America, has remained a great cattle ..."

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