bunch grass
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of bunch grass
An Americanism dating back to 1830–40
Example Sentences
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The annual precipitation in this land is not enough to support good sod-forming grass; rather, it favors the bunch grass that grows in the shelter of the sage.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 3, 2017
The wide, flat valley dotted with greasewood, yucca and bunch grass selected as site for the test explosion is known in Manhattan Project doubletalk as "Trinity."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Down the stream the horses are already beginning to tug at their lariats and struggle to their feet, that they may crop the dew-moistened bunch grass.
From Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier by King, Charles
The blue stem and the bunch grass were dry.
From The Fighting Edge by Raine, William MacLeod
The rest of it was sagebrush and jack rabbits, with a band of "fuzz-tails" stampeding at the sight of us and a few cattle nipping the bunch grass.
From In the Oregon Country Out-Doors in Oregon, Washington, and California Together with some Legendary Lore, and Glimpses of the Modern West in the Making by Putnam, George Palmer
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