Any of various grasses of many genera that grow in tufts or clumps rather than forming a sod or mat

Usage examples of bunchgrass.

Then, grumbling, he sat down awkwardly on a tuft of bunchgrass and slowly pulled off one boot and then the other.

You saw far more rabbitbrush and wild mustard than bunchgrass and sage when riding up a valley grazed by beef stock instead of the deer the Jicarilla preferred to eat.

Burned into the greasy bunchgrass, a pair of muddy skid marks disappeared beneath him.

The land was growing higher and less grassy, the waving fields of long brown grasses giving way to short bunchgrass and huge, scraggy-barked sagebrush.

She sprang up the bank, pulling herself up by the tough bunchgrass, and scrambled to her feet.

Varlik hurrying behind him through the encampment over trampled bunchgrass clumps.

There was dry bunchgrass, prairie and a set of lonesome railroad tracks leading across it to disappear between two fingers of loose rock, the hillsides studded with dark green cedar and, here and there, a little scrub oak and low, spreading juniper.

Old dead ribbons of taupe bunchgrass ringed it, and ice scalloped all around its verge like a camera iris closing.

I walked across the tufts of bunchgrass and reached out a hand to steady myself on an isolated ten-foot beech tree.

Vast, undulating plains, sometimes sparsely covered with bunchgrass, but for the most part dry and sandy with cactus and mesquite thrusting skyward.

Slogging along over rocky hills and sparse bunchgrass, she managed to dodge yellow flowering sagebrush and still search the cloud formations overhead for kittens and ghosts.

Picking his trail from several that fanned out from the bottom of the rocky chute, he made his way out of the rocks and aspen groves onto rolling hills covered with thin, coarse, high-altitude bunchgrasses, then into a broad, shallow bowl that looked like the mouth of an ancient volcano.

She nodded out to the field of waist-high native needlegrass and bunchgrass.