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bunchgrass ((n.))†
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
any of several nutritious grasses, as Agropyron spicatum, widely distributed in the West and growing in clumps.
Quotations
1858
The shingle terraces . . . here expand to form an extensive plain free from timber and covered with "bunch grass."
1963
. . . when their wanderings took them . . . to the flats above the Thompson River they were suddenly silent as bunch grass reached above the knees of their horses. . . .