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bunch grass

noun

  1. any of various grasses in different regions of North America, growing in distinct clumps.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of bunch grass1

An Americanism dating back to 1830–40

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Example Sentences

A few days' rest, and the rich bunch-grass to crop soon set the stock all right, and the white-topped wagons crawled ahead again.

Where today are seen immense wheat fields in those days there were seas of waving bunch grass.

The face of the country is everywhere covered with bunch grass, and animals feed out through the winter, as in the middle region.

It sometimes is found in open pine, oak, or pine-oak forest, but usually it is observed in areas supporting bunch grass.

All the way down the rocky trail the bunch grass and wild oak and manzanita were so thick that I had to crush my way through.

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