bluestem
noun/ˈbluːstɛm/
Etymology From blue + stem.
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US, Usually Any of various grasses having bluish stems, including little bluestem and big bluestem, principally in tribe Andropogoneae.
- Then we were going at a lope with the bluestem whipping our legs.2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 30:
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Australian bluestem, big bluestem, bluestem grass, broomsedge bluestem, bushy bluestem, cane bluestem, Caucasian bluestem, chalky bluestem, Colombian bluestem, Florida little bluestem, gulf bluestem, Hall's bluestem, honey bluestem) (Schizachyrium scoparium, syn. Schizachyrium spadiceum), little bluestem, paintbrush bluestem, pinescrub bluestem, plains bluestem, prairie bluestem, sand bluestem, sand hill bluestem, shore little bluestem, silver bluestem, slender little bluestem, split bluestem, splitbeard bluestem, Springfield bluestem, tall bluestem, yellow bluestem, yellowsedge bluestem