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GRAMA GRASS

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Meaning:

Pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America

Synonyms:

grama; grama grass; gramma; gramma grass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("grama grass" is a kind of...):

grass (narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grama grass"):

blue grama; Bouteloua gracilis (a pasture grass of western North America)

black grama; Bouteloua eriopoda (a pasture grass (especially of western coastal regions of North America))

Holonyms ("grama grass" is a member of...):

Bouteloua; genus Bouteloua (forage grasses)

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