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Extremely popular breezy-sounding plain (7)

Ross

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prairie

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'plain' is the definition.
(type of plain)

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(Other definitions for prairie that I've seen before include "Continental grassland of N America" , "Open grassland of North America" , "this oyster produces an egg" , "Large tract of grassland in N America" , "Tract of (US) grassland" .)

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