Crossword clues for shortgrass
Wiktionary
n. The set of short, tough grasses that thrive in arid plains; often specifically the native grasses of the North American Great Plains
WordNet
n. any of various grasses that are short and can tolerate drought conditions; common on the dry upland plains just east of the Rocky Mountains [syn: short-grass]
Usage examples of "shortgrass".
Few of the scattered crags and none of the passes rose above the timberline in this stretch of the Divide, but the juniper and pine thinned out to where the moonlight lit up plenty of open shortgrass, and Longarm was pleased to see they were making good time, considering he was riding strange ridges with no map but the more familiar stars up yonder.
They needed grass sheaths and leaves that were higher in protein, and bison preferred the low-growing, more nutritious shortgrass of the drier regions.
Steppe thinned into shortgrass prairie broken by black knobs of basalt.
Mek nomads off the southern shortgrass plains and over the Red River of the South.
Ji had assembled a class of combat students, maybe a dozen or so, mostly humans, and they were limbering up their bodies on a patch of pink shortgrass behind the cantina.