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Noun: prairie  preh-ree
  1. A treeless grassy plain
    "Bison once roamed freely across the vast North American prairie"
Noun: Prairial  ,preh-ree'al
  1. The ninth month (May 20 to June 18) of the French Revolutionary calendar, named for the meadows in bloom
    "Prairial marked the height of spring in the Revolutionary calendar"

Type of: grassland, Revolutionary calendar month

Part of: Revolutionary calendar

Encyclopedia: Prairie, MS

Prairial