bunch grass

noun

1. any of various grasses in different regions of North America, growing in distinct clumps.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bunch grass¹

An Americanism dating back to 1830–40

Example Sentences

A few days' rest, and the rich bunch-grass to crop soon set the stock all right, and the white-topped wagons crawled ahead again.

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Where today are seen immense wheat fields in those days there were seas of waving bunch grass.

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The face of the country is everywhere covered with bunch grass, and animals feed out through the winter, as in the middle region.

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It sometimes is found in open pine, oak, or pine-oak forest, but usually it is observed in areas supporting bunch grass.

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All the way down the rocky trail the bunch grass and wild oak and manzanita were so thick that I had to crush my way through.

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