short-grass

1. 1.

   any of various grasses that are short and can tolerate drought conditions; common on the dry upland plains just east of the Rocky Mountains

   Synonymsshortgrass

   Broadergrass

Questions about short-grass

What does short-grass mean?

short-grass means "any of various grasses that are short and can tolerate drought conditions; common on the dry upland plains just east of the Rocky Mountains".

How many syllables are in short-grass?

short-grass has 2 syllables: short--grass. The stress falls on "short-".

What is another word for short-grass?

Close synonyms include shortgrass. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is short-grass a common word?

short-grass is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.