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say it: SHAWRT-gras
shortgrass is a noun meaning "any of various grasses that are short and can tolerate drought conditions; common on the dry upland plains just east of the Rocky Mountains". It is pronounced /ˈʃɔɹtˌɡɹæs/ — SHAWRT-gras. It carries one recorded sense.
any of various grasses that are short and can tolerate drought conditions; common on the dry upland plains just east of the Rocky Mountains
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for shortgrass come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.