buffalo grass

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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any of several short grasses, as Buchloë dactyloides, common on the prairies.

Quotations

1788

I received the following memorandum from General Washington, who requested me . . . to send him . . . seeds . . . [of] buffalo grass. . . .

1896

It is certainly not an attractive spot in March, surrounded by monotonous, undulating plains, covered with gray buffalo grass.

1964

One of the last great areas of arable land, it had produced "buffalo grass" to feed the great herds [of buffalo]. . . .