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Pasture grass
Answer for the clue "Pasture grass ", 5 letters:
grama
Alternative clues for the word grama
Word definitions for grama in dictionaries
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A Grama is a Sanskrit word for village and grama panchayat is a local governing body in villages. Each Grama governs a particular village or cluster of villages. Generally these Grama attend to problems of drinking water, street lighting, drainage, primary ...
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n. A type of grass, (taxlink Bouteloua oligostachya species noshow=1)
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America [syn: grama grass , gramma , gramma grass ]
Usage examples of grama.
Out on the high plains the country was turning green once more, she felt a little cheered by that, and the weather was starting to warm up again and she sat looking out the window at the sagebrush and soapweed scattered in dark clumps in the pastures, and there were the first faint starts of blue grama and timothy.
They were down out of the mountains by midmorning and riding on a great plain grown with sideoats grama and basketgrass and dotted with lechugilla.
Crania's taunt and its implied hint that she, Grama, was far more aufait with Joss's opinions than her dull, boring elder sister, set a spark to the over-dry tinders of Nell's temper.
She had been under a constant strain since her grandfather's death, and although she sympathised with her stepsister, she couldn't stop herself from saying tartly, "You shouldn't sneer at them, Grama, since it's people like the Dobsons who have the commodity you seem to covet.
They grazed together on the same fields and complemented each other nicely, the coarse manure of the cattle blending with the more concentrated manure of the sheep to keep the grama grass flourishing.
North of that, the yellow-tan of the grama grass prairie was marked by spots of darkness and color—.
Leaphorn looked out the window, at the late afternoon light on the broken sandstone surface of the Chaco cliffs, at the gray-silver tufts of grama grass on the talus slope, at the long shadow of Fajada Butte stretching across the valley.