bunch grass

American  

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of bunch grass

An Americanism dating back to 1830–40

Example Sentences

But many landscape design experts suggest maintaining stands of dried flowers and bunch grasses to give the eye consistent pleasure through the winter.

From Washington Post

On the dome, cattle munched on native perennial bunch grasses but left native blackbrush, one of the desert’s most flammable plants, alone.

From Los Angeles Times

An ivory to brown seed from a type of bunch grass, teff accounts for nearly 70% of the local diet in Ethiopia and neighboring Eritrea.

From Los Angeles Times

Native grasses are usually perennial bunch grasses with root systems that can stretch as deep as 10 to 20 feet, so they can find water even in the hottest months.

From Los Angeles Times

Loading the feed tractor out on the ranch, da Silva runs his hand over dried bunch grass, an African variety selected and planted here by Pecsa.

From Scientific American