bunchgrass

English

Etymology

From bunch +‎ grass.

Noun

bunchgrass (countable and uncountable, plural bunchgrasses)

  1. Any of various grasses of the family Poaceae that grow in clumps rather than forming a sod or mat.
    • 2017, Hernan Diaz, In the Distance, Daunt Books (2018), page 135:
      With every day, as he kept moving north, bunchgrass became more abundant, and eventually the land turned yellow.

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