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Prairie

Defined in 2 dictionaries — Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910)

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

An extensive tract of land destitute of trees, covered with coarse grass, and usually characterized by a deep, fertile soil; a meadow or tract of grassland; especially a so called “natural meadow.” Interstate G. C. Co. y. Kline, 51 Kan. 23, 32 Pac. 628.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

An extensive tract of level or rolling land, destitute of trees, covered with coarse grass, and usually characterized by a deep, fertile soil. Webster. See Buxton v. Railroad Co., 58 Mo. 45; Brunell v. Hopkins, 42 Iowa, 429.