WordNet
n. pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America [syn: grama, grama grass, gramma]
Usage examples of "gramma grass".
His personal earthen property, on which he might have grazed these animals, consisted of one irrigated acre around his house, five sageland acres in the Coyote Arroyo section of Milagro, one and seven-tenths acres of sageland and sparse gramma grass near the north-south highway, and the seven-tenths of an acre on the west side where his beans were growing.
Still, you could make out the old irrigation ditches which had once fed the larger and still-fenced bean- and alfalfa fields, dry and dead now but for tumbleweed and numerous yellow bun-shaped snakeweed bushes and sparse tufts of gramma grass.
It suggests the ultimate aircraft carrier, twenty stories tall and three miles long, anchored in a sea of gramma grass.
Every blade of gramma grass, with its shining bronze-tufted seed head, had significance for her.