Question

What are prairie? Why are they called so? ​

Answer 1

Answer:

Explorers called these areas “prairies," borrowing a word from the French that meant “meadow." Ecologists classify prairies as temperate grasslands, because they are characterized by plants and grasses rather than trees. Prairies are mainly found in the interior lowland areas of North America.

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Answer 2

1 : land in or predominantly in grass. 2 : a tract of grassland: such as. a : a large area of level or rolling land in the Mississippi River valley that in its natural uncultivated state usually has deep fertile soil, a cover of tall coarse grasses, and few trees.

We have taken into our language the word prairie, because when our backwoods men first reached the land [in the Midwest] and saw the great natural meadows of long grass—sights unknown to the gloomy forests wherein they had always dwelt—they knew not what to call them, and borrowed the term already in use among the French inhabitants.