bluestem
Americannoun
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any of several prairie grasses of the genus Andropogon, having bluish leaf sheaths, now grown in the western U.S. for forage.
Etymology
Origin of bluestem
Example Sentences
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North Creek introduced Standing Ovation, a little bluestem that stands tall — 3 to 4 feet — through all four seasons.
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A field of bluestem unfurled to the south.
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One of his favorite sections contains sweeps of the grass little bluestem and the perennial sweet everlasting amid scattered plantings of pitch pines.
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The land that hasn’t been cleared and converted to Bermuda grass for cattle grazing is covered in dense forest, or native grasses like little bluestem.
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In the two-acre meadow in Delaware, plants are set amid a sea of prairie dropseed grass; in another bed, the matrix is of a low grass named little bluestem.
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