GREAT PLAINS OF NORTH AMERICA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Great Plains of North America mean? 

• GREAT PLAINS OF NORTH AMERICA (noun)
  The noun GREAT PLAINS OF NORTH AMERICA has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: GREAT PLAINS OF NORTH AMERICA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GREAT PLAINS OF NORTH AMERICA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Great Plains; Great Plains of North America

Instance hypernyms:

prairie (a treeless grassy plain)

Meronyms (parts of "Great Plains of North America"):

dust bowl (a region subject to dust storms; especially the central region of United States subject to dust storms in the 1930s)

Llano Estacado (a large semiarid plateau forming the southern part of the Great Plains)

Holonyms ("Great Plains of North America" is a part of...):

North America (a continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama)