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Bunch grass   /bəntʃ græs/   Listen
Bunch grass

noun
1.
Any of various grasses of many genera that grow in tufts or clumps rather than forming a sod or mat; chiefly of western United States.  Synonym: bunchgrass.






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"Bunch grass" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Bunch grass," said Obed, "like that which you find further north, and mighty good it is, too, for cattle and horses. We'll have plenty of food for these two noble steeds of ours, and I shouldn't be surprised, too, if we ran across big game. It's always where ...
— The Texan Star - The Story of a Great Fight for Liberty • Joseph A. Altsheler

... Environment: sparse bunch grass, prostrate vines, and low-growing shrubs; lacks fresh water; primarily a nesting, roosting, and foraging habitat for seabirds, shorebirds, and ...
— The 1990 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... owned the Island ranch near the Lake shore, and who came to the Tahoe region at the time of the Squaw Valley mining excitement. When the "bottom fell out" of that he did a variety of things to earn a living, one of which was to cut bunch grass from Lake Valley and bring it on mules over the pass that bears his name, boat it across to Lakeside at the south end of the Lake, on the Placerville and Virginia City stage-road, and there sell it to the stage station. Hay thus gathered ...
— The Lake of the Sky • George Wharton James

... the Jornado a vast and savage waste or a pleasant place and a various. That depended upon you. Materials for either opinion were plenty; lava flow, saccaton flats, rolling sand hills sage-brush, mesquite and yucca, bunch grass and shallow lakes, bench and hill, ridge and groundswell and wandering draw; always the great mountains round about; the mountains and the ...
— The Desire of the Moth; and The Come On • Eugene Manlove Rhodes



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