Definition of Blue grama

1. Noun. A pasture grass of western North America.

Exact synonyms: Bouteloua Gracilis
Generic synonyms: Grama, Grama Grass, Gramma, Gramma Grass

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blue Grama

blue fig
blue films
blue flag
blue flash
blue flashes
blue fleabane
blue flu
blue flyer
blue fox
blue foxes
blue funk
blue giant
blue giants
blue goose
blue grama (current term)
blue green
blue greens
blue gum
blue gums
blue heeler
blue heelers
blue hen-hawk
blue hole
blue holes
blue hour
blue hours
blue jack
blue jasmine

Literary usage of Blue grama

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ecosystem Disturbance and Wildlife Conservation in Western Grasslands: A edited by Deborah M. Finch (1998)
"It took three growing seasons for a burned buffalograss-blue grama community to return to a level comparable to that of unburned areas. ..."

2. The Santa Rita Experimental Range: History and Annotated Bibliography (1903 by Alvin L. Medina (1997)
"How to graze blue grama on southwestern ranges. Leaflet 215. Washington, DC: US Department of Agriculture. 8 p. On 48 million acres in Arizona and New ..."

3. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1907)
"All of these are also valuable for pasturage, but the two chief pasture grasses are buffalo-grass and blue grama. Other grasses of importance are wild rye, ..."

4. A Manual of Farm Grasses by Albert Spear Hitchcock (1921)
"to distinguish it from the one described above, called sometimes blue grama. Black grama closely resembles blue grama but is found especially on sterile ..."

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