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Great Plains
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Great Plains
A vast grassland region of central North America extending from the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba southward to Texas. Much of the area is used for cattle and wheat ranching.
Great Plains
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(Placename) a vast region of North America east of the Rocky Mountains, extending from the lowlands of the Mackenzie River (Canada), south to the Big Bend of the Rio Grande
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Noun1.Great Plains - a vast prairie region extending from Alberta and Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada south through the west central United States into TexasGreat Plains - a vast prairie region extending from Alberta and Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada south through the west central United States into Texas; formerly inhabited by Native Americans
Great Plains of North America
dust bowl - a region subject to dust storms; especially the central region of United States subject to dust storms in the 1930s
Llano Estacado - a large semiarid plateau forming the southern part of the Great Plains
North America - a continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama
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When you live in Indiana, you have to submit to the fact that you will occasionally have to deal with violent storms Indiana is on the edge of the plains states, and still a part of tornado alley, and as a result the Indianapolis real estate market routinely has to deal with high winds, violent rain storms and brutal snow storms in the winter When you live in Indiana, you have to submit to the fact that you will occasionally have to deal with violent storms.
Storms and Indianapolis Real Estate by Joseph Feross / Real estate industry community
An autumn marked by adequate rainfall across much of the Central Plains states, and no hint of a return to drought conditions in the near future, could lead to an abundant spring 2007 harvest of hard red winter wheat, point out meteorologists from AccuWeather.
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