Crossword clues for tallgrass
Wiktionary
n. (context US English) Any of various tall grasses that flourish in prairie with relatively abundant water.
WordNet
n. any of various grasses that are tall and that flourish with abundant moisture [syn: tall-grass]
Wikipedia
Tallgrass most frequently refers to the native North American grasslands, Tallgrass prairie. Many events, businesses, and locations have been named after the prairie including:
Companies- Tallgrass Beef Company, Kansas-based beef company
- Tallgrass Brewing Company, Kansas's largest brewery based in Manhattan, KS
- Tallgrass Energy Partners, an oil company
- Tallgrass Technologies Corporation, acquired by Exabyte in 1993, sold computer tape backup systems
- Tallgrass Film Festival, annual film festival held in Wichita, Kansas
- Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, a United States National Preserve located in the Flint Hills region of Kansas
- Tallgrass Prairie Preserve, owned and managed by The Nature Conservancy in Osage County, Oklahoma
- Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, operated by the United States Forest Service near Elwood, Illinois
- Tallgrass Aspen Parkland, a Conservation area located in southeastern Manitoba /northwestern Minnesota
- Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge, a refuge in northern Minnesota and Iowa
Usage examples of "tallgrass".
He rested his head on a natural pillow of dropseed, the clump-grass that grows in the middle of the long swales of the tallgrass country.
Giancola II, Chrysler IV, New Angola, Lower Volta, Rashoman, Purpleveldt, Tigerstripe III, Nelson 23, Tallgrass.
Stretching to the horizon, it was a sweep of golden-green tallgrass with channels of bronze water meandering past scattered copses of swamp poplar and bog spruce.
Tallgrass and short steppe grasses and herbs, feather grasses and fescues, the cental steppic plains were an extraordinarily rich, abundantly productive grassland blowing in the wind.
Then the grass rolled over the landscape, virgin tallgrass prairie dotted with prairie aster, wild poppies, cornflowers, rocketweed, and lupine.
This might be the tallgrass prairie of the days of the buffalo herds.
The forest thickened as they moved closer to the foothills of the Drakons, spreading up from the low swales and valleys to conquer the slopes of the hills, leaving only patches in the tallgrass prairie that was so common elsewhere in the Illyrian Dales.
When there's less food in the tallgrass prairie where the voles live, they tend to be monogamous, an intimate cooperation that keeps the male from having to hunt for females, and insures that offspring will survive better because both parents feed them.
Disoriented, jet-lagged, she glimpsed Fermilab itself, the perfect circle of the collider ring set amid green tallgrass prairie, presumably replanted.