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little bluestem

noun

  1. a North American forage grass, Schizachyrium scoparium, having wide often bluish blades.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of little bluestem1

First recorded in 1895–1900
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Example Sentences

Rossi and two colleagues were walking through a quiet corner called the Hill of Graves when they stumbled on a patch of little bluestem, a well-known native prairie grass, rising out of a spot the mowers had missed.

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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