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Bunch grass   /bəntʃ græs/   Listen
Bunch grass

noun
1.
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.  Synonym: bunchgrass.






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"Bunch grass" Quotes from Famous Books



... over it while the mountain division of the Great Northern was building up the Wenatchee. It keeps an easy grade, following the canyons up and up till it's six thousand feet at the divide, then you begin to drop to the Columbia. And when you leave the woods, it's like this again, bunch grass and sage, sand and alkali, for twenty miles. Of course there isn't a regular stage now; you have ...
— The Rim of the Desert • Ada Woodruff Anderson

... longitudinal depression of the top which Cap. immediately put down in his notes as Summit Valley, a name that holds to-day. There we threw off our packs and made camp for the night. Though there was no water the ground was covered by a thin layer of snow, that made the long bunch grass palatable to the horses and for ourselves we had sufficient water in two small kegs and several canteens. A bright fire blazed cheerfully, the dense cedars broke the wind, and everybody felt that it was a fine camp. The others spent the evening ...
— A Canyon Voyage • Frederick S. Dellenbaugh



Words linked to "Bunch grass" :   grass, bunchgrass



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