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Bunch grass

Bunch grass \Bunch" grass`\ (Bot.) A grass growing in bunches and affording pasture. In California, Atropis tenuifolia, Festuca scabrella, and several kinds of Stipa are favorite bunch grasses. In Utah, Eriocoma cuspidata is a good bunch grass.

WordNet
bunch grass

n. 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 [syn: bunchgrass]

Usage examples of "bunch grass".

The guard yawned and scratched, staring around into the darkness, but Kilkenny lay among the clumps of bunch grass and was not worried.

Melvin says too loud for the quiet hill, only the breeze soughing through spruce, through bunch grass.