Crossword clues for bluestem
The Collaborative International Dictionary
bluestem \bluestem\ n. tall grass with smooth bluish leaf sheaths grown for hay in Western U.S.
Syn: blue stem, Andropogon furcatus, Andropogon gerardii.
Wiktionary
n. Any of various grasses, including little bluestem and big bluestem.
WordNet
n. tall grass with smooth bluish leaf sheaths grown for hay in the United States [syn: blue stem, Andropogon furcatus, Andropogon gerardii]
Wikipedia
Bluestem or Blue stem may refer to:
- Bluestem grass (disambiguation)
- Bluestem, Washington
- Bluestem Lake
Usage examples of "bluestem".
The acreage in front of the plant still held a few of the fences and posts from the animal pens that had subdivided the area long ago but mostly the field had been reclaimed by the Kansas prairie of mid-high grass, sedge, bluestem, and buffalo grass.
She was bounding over the grass and bluestem toward the first row of police cars.
And if we have rain during the next ten days this section of Bluestem will yield fifty bushels to the acre.
In the Fife and Bluestem varieties the infected heads previous to maturity exhibit a darker green color, and remain green longer than the normal heads.
In Osage County there were some pretty small towns: Bigheart, Hulah, Okeas, Wild Horse, Shidler, White Eagle, Horseshoe, Kaw City, Hog Shooter, Rock Salt, Bluestem, each of these towns being smaller than its fellows.
That first time, we had ridden up to Bluestem Ranch Number One with Tom Bluestem and his mother in her Buick sedan.
This was a surprising outburst, for Grandfather Bluestem was always a friendly and soft-spoken man.
Barry, Crover, Caesar, Hector, John, Helen, myself, and Tom Bluestem, we all got in the ranch truck and Grandmother Bluestem drove us to Lost Moon Canyon.
V had his tenth birthday, and Grandmother Bluestem who said that she was either fifty or a hundred years, she forgot which, she was weak at numbers.
Lost Moon Canyon, through which ran Hominy Creek, was the roughest place on the Bluestem Ranches.
It gave us a good view of both Lost Moon Canyon and the Bluestem Ranch House far below, and you could even see the towers of Pawhuska off in the misty distance north-east.
Four of the men on White Cow worked for the Bluestem Ranches down below, mowing and baling hay, mending fences, moving cattle from one pasture to another, doing whatever workers do on a ranch.
One of the women taught at the consolidated school that was between Bluestem and Gray Horse.
Then we heard Grandmother Bluestem honking the horn of the ranch truck far below and to the south of us.
Well, I guess that there was a large and nearly spherical rock in the Lost Moon Canyon area of the Bluestem Ranches.