bunchgrass
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English
Etymology
Noun
bunchgrass (countable and uncountable, plural bunchgrasses)
- Any of various grasses of the family Poaceae that grow in clumps rather than forming a sod or mat.
- 2017, Hernan Diaz, In the Distance, Daunt Books (2018), page 135:
- With every day, as he kept moving north, bunchgrass became more abundant, and eventually the land turned yellow.
Synonyms
- (clumping grasses): tussock grass
Hyponyms
- (clumping grasses): Brachypodium, Calamagrostis, Chionochloa, Deschampsia, Festuca, Heteropogon, Leymus, Melica, Muhlenbergia, Nassella, Stipa - selected genera