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Definition of Grama grass

1. Noun. Pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America.

Medical Definition of Grama grass

1. The name of several kinds of pasture grasses found in the Western United States, especially. The Bouteloua oligostachya. Origin: Sp. Grama a sort of grass. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Grama Grass

Literary usage of Grama grass

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

1. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry, Division of Plant Industry, Queensland (1911)
"See Association, grama grass, sand. See Calamovilfa longifolia. wheat, occurrence in the Great Plains area wire, occurrence in the Great Plains area 47,53 ..."

2. Life Among the Apaches by John C. Cremony (2001)
"grama grass. — The In formation Indispensable for a Successful Campaign against Apaches. — The Smoke Columns. — Pressed Grass. — Bent and Broken Twigs. ..."

3. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1889)
"In a few isolated localities are stretches of valley several miles in extent, fine meadow lands, where this species, and grama grass, and Poo tenuifolia ..."

4. A Manual of Farm Grasses by Albert Spear Hitchcock (1921)
"grama grass is found in varying quantities throughout the Great Plains. There is a second species of grama grass called black grama (Bouteloua hirsuta Lag. ..."

5. Notes of a Military Reconnoissance from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to by William Hemsley Emory (1848)
"The leaves of some cotton-wood and grape vine, and other vegetation, were yellow in the October sun; the grama grass looks faded, but it is now in the seed, ..."

6. Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians by Wilfred William Robbins, John Peabody Harrington, Barbara W. Freire-Marreco (1916)
"grama grass. (See fig. 5.) 'Any,ta (any,, unexplained ; ta, grass). Much of this grass grows along the ... grama grass. , 'red grass' (ta, grass; pi, red). ..."

7. Annual Report of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the by Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.), United States General Land Office, United States Dept. of the Interior (1878)
"Proceeding southward, this changes to grama grass and sage, the latter product making the greater part of the exchange. Near the south boundary of the State ..."

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