BLUESTEM

Meaning of BLUESTEM in English

[blue.stem] n (ca. 1862) 1: a tall No. American grass (Andropogon gerardii syn. A. furcatus) that has smooth bluish leaf sheaths and slender spikes borne in pairs or clusters and is used for hay and forage

2: little bluestem

Merriam-Webster English vocab. Английский словарь Merriam Webster. 2012

BLUESTEM — noun Date: circa 1852 a tall North American grass ( Andropogon gerardii syn. A. furcatus ) that has smooth bluish …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
BLUESTEM — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun 1. a. : a tall grass ( Andropogon furcatus ) with smooth bluish leaf sheaths and slender spikes …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
BLUESTEM — /blooh"stem'/ , n. 1. any of several prairie grasses of the genus Andropogon, having bluish leaf sheaths, now grown in …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
BLUESTEM — noun Date: circa 1852 1. : a tall North American grass ( Andropogon gerardii syn. A. furcatus ) that has …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
BLUESTEM — also called beard grass any of the approximately 200 species of perennial, sometimes tufted grasses in the genus Andropogon (family …
Britannica English vocabulary
BLUESTEM — бот. бородач (Andropogon) - angleton bluestem - Australian bluestem - East Indies bluestem - little bluestem - yellow sedge bluestem
Новый Англо-Русский словарь по биологии
BLUESTEM — бот. бородач ( Andropogon ) - angleton bluestem - Australian bluestem - East Indies bluestem - little bluestem - yellow …
Новый Англо-Русский биологический словарь
BLUESTEM — big bluestem little bluestem sand bluestem
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
BLUESTEM — Pronunciation: ' blü- ˌ stem Function: noun Date: circa 1852 1 : a tall No. American grass ( Andropogon gerardii …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
SAND BLUESTEM — noun Date: circa 1946 a tall rhizomatous North American grass ( Andropogon hallii syn. A. gerardii var. paucipilus ) that …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
LITTLE BLUESTEM — noun Date: circa 1898 a forage grass ( Schizachyrium scoparium syn. Andropogon scoparius ) of eastern and central North America
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
BIG BLUESTEM — noun Date: 1894 bluestem 1
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
YELLOW BLUESTEM — noun : a tropical beardgrass ( Andropogon ischaemum ) that is adventive in parts of the United States and used …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SEACOAST BLUESTEM — noun : a bluestem ( Andropogon littoralis ) of beaches and dunes of eastern No. America that is very similar …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SAND BLUESTEM — noun : a tall American grass ( Andropogon hallii ) used for forage and in soil conservation having creeping rhizomes …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
LITTLE BLUESTEM — noun : a forage grass ( Andropogon scoparius ) of central No. America — called also bluejoint turkeyfoot
Webster's New International English Dictionary
EASTERN BLUESTEM — noun : bluestem 2b
Webster's New International English Dictionary
BIG BLUESTEM — noun : bluestem 1a
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SAND BLUESTEM — a grass, Andropogon hallii, native to the Great Plains, used as a cover crop for sand dunes. [ 1945-50 ]
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
LITTLE BLUESTEM — a North American forage grass, Schizachyrium scoparium, having wide often bluish blades. [ 1895-1900 ]
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SAND BLUESTEM — Date: circa 1946 : a tall rhizomatous North American grass ( Andropogon hallii syn. A. gerardii var. paucipilus ) that …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
LITTLE BLUESTEM — Date: circa 1898 : a forage grass ( Schizachyrium scoparium syn. Andropogon scoparius ) of eastern and central North America
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
BIG BLUESTEM — Date: 1894 : bluestem 1
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SAND BLUESTEM — [sand bluestem] n (ca. 1946): a tall rhizomatous grass (Andropogon hallii) of the western U.S. used for forage and as …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
LITTLE BLUESTEM — [little bluestem] n (ca. 1898): a forage grass (Schizachyrium scoparium syn. Andropogon scoparius) of eastern and central No. America
Merriam-Webster English vocab
BLUE-STEM WHEATGRASS — noun see bluestem 1b
Webster's New International English Dictionary
STREAK — I. ˈstrēk noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English strek, streke, strik, strike, from Old English strica line, streak; akin …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
WIRE GRASS — noun : any of various grasses having wiry culms or leaves: as a. : a European slender-stemmed meadow grass ( …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
WESTERN WHEATGRASS — noun 1. : a valuable forage grass ( Agropyron smithii ) of the western United States 2. : bluestem 1a
Webster's New International English Dictionary
RASPBERRY STREAK — noun : bluestem 2b
Webster's New International English Dictionary
BLUEJOINT TURKEYFOOT — noun : little bluestem
Webster's New International English Dictionary
ANDROPOGON — ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˈpōˌgän noun Usage: capitalized Etymology: New Latin, from andr- + -pogon : a large and important genus of almost cosmopolitan …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
DWARF PALMETTO — an apparently stemless palm, Sabal minor, of the southeastern U.S., having stiff, bluish-green leaves, the leafstalks arising from the ground. …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary

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