tallgrassとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From tall +‎ grass.

名詞

tallgrass (countable and uncountable, plural tallgrasses)

1. (US) Any of various tall grasses that flourish in prairie with relatively abundant water.
   • 2017, Eli Clare, Brilliant Imperfection, page 15:

     Restoring a tallgrass prairie means rebuilding a dynamic system that has been destroyed by the near extinction of bison, the presence of cattle, and generations of agribusiness farming and fire suppression.

   • 2019, Dale Strickler, Managing Pasture: A Complete Guide to Building Healthy, page 75

     […] the tallgrasses (such as big bluestem, Indiangrass, switchgrass, little bluestem) and the shortgrasses (buffalograss, blue grama, black grama, sideoats grama). The tallgrasses are the major species found in the more humid prairie areas, […]

等位語

• (grasses): shortgrass