What's the difference between meadow and prairie?

Meadow


Definition:

  • (n.) A tract of low or level land producing grass which is mown for hay; any field on which grass is grown for hay.
  • (n.) Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rives and in marshy places by the sea; as, the salt meadows near Newark Bay.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a meadow; of the nature of a meadow; produced, growing, or living in, a meadow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Meadow vole dams, housed in a 14L:10D photoperiod were injected daily 3 h before onset of darkness with 10 micrograms melatonin.
  • (2) The results are negative in swampy meadow -- habitats on siliceous soils.
  • (3) On returning to the courtyard you can take an optional loop through the bee and butterfly wildflower meadow – the start of the path is just behind the engine shed building.
  • (4) The effect of irrigation of meadows with the water of the river.
  • (5) The hypothesis that sex differences in maze learning result from sex differences in activity was tested with wild-caught prairie (Microtus ochrogaster) and meadow (M. pennsylvanicus) voles.
  • (6) Meadow voles exposed to house dust mites from the homes of patients did not develop serologic or pathologic evidence of infection due to rickettsiae in the spotted fever and typhus groups or Coxiella burnetii.
  • (7) Land reclamation measures carried out on the territory of a flood-plain-paludal focus of tularemia change the ecological and biocenotic links, which leads to the formation of a meadow-field focus with other-than-before sources and vectors of tularemia infection.
  • (8) Three bacterial isolates, a Pseudomonas sp., a Bacillus sp., and an Arthrobacter sp., commonly isolated from a hummocky sedge-moss meadow at Devon Island, N.W.T., Canada, were selected for further taxonomic characterization and for a study of the effects of temperature and limiting carbon source on growth.
  • (9) The site of the crash was in the marshy Ruhr meadows.
  • (10) The results demonstrate that meadow-mice, Columbian ground-squirrels, golden-mantled ground-squirrels, chipmunks and snowshoe hares (the latter to a lesser extent), when bitten by infected ticks, respond with rickettsiaemias of sufficient length and degree to infect normal larval D. andersoni.
  • (11) Anna asks, practically hanging a bell round Jill's neck and herding her into a meadow.
  • (12) Strauss uses his vast orchestra to depict the experiences of his character on the mountain: a distant hunting party (listen for the 12 offstage horns), waterfalls, meadows, a dark, threatening forest, losing the path, the triumphant view from the summit and the best storm in music since Rossini's William Tell Overture (listen out for the wind machine).
  • (13) He is thought to live in the Boreham Wood area, and featured in the match at Meadow Park, although he was unable to get on the scoresheet as the hosts lost 5-0.
  • (14) Do I think it gives the president a loss?” asked Mark Meadows, the chairman of the Freedom Caucus.
  • (15) Mycocarriers were most frequently found among small mammals living in corn fields (5.9%), less frequently in water meadows (0.9) and sporadically in forests and bushes (0.1%).
  • (16) Back in the meadow I followed a worn path that was most likely part of the badger’s nightly beat.
  • (17) The results of a serological survey of a free-living population of meadow voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus) in Pinawa, Manitoba (Canada) showed that these animals possessed antibodies to six of the eleven viruses tested for, namely: reovirus type 3, murine encephalomyelitis agent, ectromelia virus, murine adenovirus, murine hepatitis virus and lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus.
  • (18) "Embarking on new projects, we sometimes encounter unexpected challenges, and Street View has been no exception," said Google spokesman Taj Meadows, adding that "Street View abides by Thailand's local laws and only features imagery taken on public property".
  • (19) A New Yorker cartoon portrays a woman in an elegant boutique asking whether they have something to, “Fill that dark empty space in my soul.” As Dana Meadows observed , we seek to meet non-material needs with things.
  • (20) Grass-mowing of swampy meadows at the beginning of summer drying distinctly restricts numbers of snails, when Zonitoides nitidus lives in the habitats.

Prairie


Definition:

  • (n.) An extensive tract of level or rolling land, destitute of trees, covered with coarse grass, and usually characterized by a deep, fertile soil. They abound throughout the Mississippi valley, between the Alleghanies and the Rocky mountains.
  • (n.) A meadow or tract of grass; especially, a so called natural meadow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ewes were fed a 50:50 mixture of alfalfa and prairie hay ad libitum and either no concentrates (C), .4 kg concentrates .
  • (2) The hypothesis that sex differences in maze learning result from sex differences in activity was tested with wild-caught prairie (Microtus ochrogaster) and meadow (M. pennsylvanicus) voles.
  • (3) In the prairie dog model, gastric distention with acid (0.1 M hydrochloric acid, pH 1.3) and alkaline (10(-5) sodium hydroxide, pH 8.8) isotonic saline solutions both resulted in significant increases in sphincter of Oddi phasic wave frequency, amplitude, and motility index.
  • (4) Prairie McLaughlin Elder women, under threat of arrest, have led prayer circles directly on land where construction is planned.
  • (5) Sphincterotomy is known to prevent gallstone formation in cholesterol-fed prairie dogs.
  • (6) The seasonal trend was more marked in the Prarie provinces and in Quebec than elsewhere; the maximum rate of anencephalus occurrence was in October to December in the Prairies and in British Columbia, and in January to March in other regions.
  • (7) Gallstones were induced in 49 prairie dogs by feeding 1.2% CH in a nutritionally adequate semisynthetic diet for 6 wk (period 1).
  • (8) Prairie hay (.77% N, 73% neutral detergent fiber [NDF] and 7% acid detergent lignin) was fed ad libitum from d 1 through 14 and at 90% of ad libitum intake from d 15 through 21 during digesta collection.
  • (9) The organization of estrus in this species is unusual in that females never display the cyclic changes associated with estrus; rather, female prairie voles require chemosensory stimuli associated with fertile males in order to be induced into estrus.
  • (10) The interactive effects of hormones, sexual history and cohabitation on sexual and social behaviors were examined in pairs of ovariectomized female and sexually experienced male prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster).
  • (11) The prairie dog also has a high concentration of small platelets.
  • (12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Prairie McLaughlin, who says she was forced to strip in front of male and female guards.
  • (13) That South Louisiana music has found its way around such impediments is obvious from K-BON, a radio station based in the Prairie town of Eunice.
  • (14) The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of cohabitation time and sexual experience on the development of pair bond formation in female prairie voles.
  • (15) R-receptors comprise about 40% of the receptors in the gray squirrel, 10% of the receptors in the prairie dog, and 4-5% of the receptors in the two species of ground squirrel.
  • (16) That is to say nothing about the future of small-scale British farming if it has to compete head-on with the vast prairies of the US midwest.
  • (17) After drainage of the bile salt pool, we infused unanesthetized bile fistula prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus) intravenously with taurine-conjugated chenodeoxycholate (TCDC), cholate (TC), ursodeoxycholate (TUDC), and ursocholate (TUC) in concentrations that attained greater than 94% enrichment of biliary bile salts.
  • (18) (Titles from his current album, Losin' Lately Gambler, include Steer Rider's Blues, This Is My Prairie, and Long Gone To Saskatchewan.)
  • (19) Intracerebroventricular (ICV) injection of oxytocin (300 ng) produced an immediate cessation in sexual behavior in sexually active male prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster).
  • (20) The ceremony takes place at a black Catholic Church in the Prairie Hamlet of Frilot Cove: the priest imagines Collins arriving in heaven and resolving to 'take this place apart', before the Hail Mary is sung in French, and accordions play a zydeco standard entitled 'I'm Coming Home' as the coffin is laid in the ground.

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