grama
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of grama
1820–30, < Spanish grama < Latin grāmina, plural of grāmen grass
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Or at least that's what grama taught me during my last trip.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2022
Specific to Arizona, galleta, sand dropseed, Indian rice grass and grama grass are better for growing during a drought than fescue, rye and Kentucky bluegrass, Hauser says.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 20, 2021
Other recent blooms include a native grass called needle grama, brittle creosote, desert senna, Acton encelia or brittlebush, and big galleta grass.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2021
The leaked brine killed every sprig of grama and bluestem grasses and shinnery shrubs it touched.
From US News ● Sep. 8, 2015
Only such moisture was available as could be found in black grama and needle grass.
From Gunsight Pass How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West by William MacLeod Raine
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