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English
Etymology
From blue + stem.
Pronunciation
Noun
bluestem (usually uncountable, plural bluestems)
- (US) Any of various grasses having bluish stems, including little bluestem and big bluestem.
2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 30:Then we were going at a lope with the bluestem whipping our legs.
Derived terms
- bluestem grass
- cane bluestem (Bothriochloa barbinodis)
- Caucasian bluestem, Australian bluestem, plains bluestem (Bothriochloa bladhii)
- yellow bluestem (Bothriochloa ischaemum)
- silver bluestem (Bothriochloa laguroides)
- Springfield bluestem (Bothriochloa springfieldii)
- big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii)
- broomsedge bluestem, yellowsedge bluestem (Andropogon virginicus)
- split bluestem, splitbeard bluestem, silver bluestem, paintbrush bluestem (Andropogon ternarius)
- sand bluestem, sand hill bluestem, Hall's bluestem, prairie bluestem (Andropogon hallii)
- bushy bluestem (Andropogon glomeratus)
- tall bluestem (Andropogon gerardii)
- chalky bluestem (Andropogon virginicus, syn. Andropogon capillipes)
- little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium)
- Colombian bluestem (Schizachyrium condensatum)
- shore little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium subsp. littorale, syn. Schizachyrium littorale)
- gulf bluestem (Schizachyrium maritimum)
- pinescrub bluestem (Schizachyrium niveum)
- Florida little bluestem (Schizachyrium rhizomatum)
- honey bluestem) (Schizachyrium scoparium, syn. Schizachyrium spadiceum)
- slender little bluestem (Schizachyrium tenerum)
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