bluegrass
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bluegrass (Poa pratensis) young seed heads
See also: blue grass and Bluegrass
English
Pronunciation
Alternative forms
Etymology 1
From blue + grass, from the bluish appearance of the massed grass in late Spring.
Noun
bluegrass (countable and uncountable, plural bluegrasses)
Derived terms
- annual bluegrass (Poa annua)
- Australian bluegrass (Andropogon sericeus)
- big bluegrass (Poa ampla)
- bulbous bluegrass (Poa bulbosa)
- California bluegrass (Poa fendleriana)
- Canada bluegrass (Poa compressa)
- English bluegrass (Poa compressa)
- fowl bluegrass (Poa palustris)
- Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis)
- Merion bluegrass
- mutton bluegrass (Poa fendleriana)
- Nevada bluegrass (Poa nevadensis)
- rough bluegrass (Poa trivialis)
- rough-stalked bluegrass (Poa trivialis)
- Sandberg bluegrass (Poa secunda)
- Shenendoah bluegrass (Poa pratensis)
- Texas bluegrass (Poa arachnifera)
- wood bluegrass (Poa nemoralis)
- Sandberg's bluegrass
- Wheeler's bluegrass
Translations
type of grass
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References
Poa pratensis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Poa pratensis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Poa pratensis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Etymology 2
From the band Blue Grass Boys, led by Bill Monroe; bluegrass is first attested in print in reference to the genre of music in 1956.
Noun
bluegrass (uncountable)
- (music, uncountable) A subgenre of country music with roots in Scots-Irish Appalachian folk music, blues, and jazz and characterized by banjos, fiddles, acoustic guitars, dobros, and mandolins; but containing no drums, electric guitars, pianos or other keyboard or wind instruments.
Derived terms
Translations
style of country music
See also
References
- “bluegrass”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- 2001. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: North America. Garland Publishing. Ellen Koskoff (Ed.) Pgs. 158-159.
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English bluegrass.
Noun
bluegrass
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English bluegrass.
Pronunciation
Noun
bluegrass m (uncountable)
- bluegrass (a style of country music)
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.