Crossword clues for grama
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A type of grass, (taxlink Bouteloua oligostachya species noshow=1)
WordNet
n. pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America [syn: grama grass, gramma, gramma grass]
Wikipedia
A Grama in Halacha (Jewish law) is something that was caused by something else but whose outcome is not guaranteed.
There is a rule that Grama benizakin patur. If somebody caused financial harm to somebody else via an action that was not guaranteed to harm them, the person cannot be forced by a court to pay, although he might be morally obligated to.
Grama may refer to:
- Slang for grandmother
- Grama (government), a local governing body in India
- Grama (halacha), a concept in Jewish law
- Bouteloua, several varieties of 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.