bunchgrass
nounEtymology From bunch + grass.
1
Any of various grasses of the family Poaceae that grow in clumps rather than forming a sod or mat.
- With every day, as he kept moving north, bunchgrass became more abundant, and eventually the land turned yellow.2017, Hernan Diaz, In the Distance, Daunt Books (2018), page 135:
- Synonyms
- tussock grass
- Derived terms
- Goldman's bunchgrass lizard
- Hyponyms
- Brachypodium, Calamagrostis, Chionochloa, Deschampsia, Festuca, Heteropogon, Leymus, Melica, Muhlenbergia, Nassella, Stipa