prairie

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

prairie [prairie prairies] BrE [ˈpreəri] NAmE [ˈpreri] noun countable, uncountable
a flat wide area of land in N America and Canada, without many trees and originally covered with grass

Word Origin:
late 18th cent.: from French, from Old French praerie, from Latin pratum ‘meadow’.

Example Bank:
•His charges spread like a prairie fire.
•Only about 5% of native prairie is left in Kansas.
•a train of covered wagons crossing the wide American prairies
•settlers' houses on the prairies of Canada
•their route across the prairie
•The North American prairie was once the world's largest grassland.