Definition of Bouteloua gracilis

1. Noun. A pasture grass of western North America.

Exact synonyms: Blue Grama
Generic synonyms: Grama, Grama Grass, Gramma, Gramma Grass

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bouteloua Gracilis

Bourdon
Bourdon tube
Bourgery
Bourgery's ligament
Bourgignot
Bourgignots
Bourgogne
Bournemouth
Bourneville
Bourneville's disease
Bourneville-Pringle disease
Bourquin
Boutcher
Bouteloua
Bouteloua eriopoda
Bouteloua gracilis (current term)
Bouvet Island
Bouvier des Flandres
Bouviers des Flandres
Bouvines
Bouyei
Bovero
Bovey coal
Bovicola
Bovidae
Bovie
Bovinae
Bovini
Bovril

Literary usage of Bouteloua gracilis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Llano Estacado of the Us Southern High Plains: Environmental by Elizabeth Brooks (2000)
"... blue grama (Bouteloua gracilis), and hairy grama (Bouteloua hirsuta), has largely disappeared, but grasslands of some form persist in the open pasturage ..."

2. Ecosystem Disturbance and Wildlife Conservation in Western Grasslands: A edited by Deborah M. Finch (1998)
"Dominant grasses are buffalograss (Buchloe dactyloides) and blue grama (Bouteloua gracilis), with varying amounts of ..."

3. Ecology, Diversity and Sustainability of the Middle Rio Grande Basin edited by Deborah M. Finch, Joseph A. Tainter (1996)
"... and broom snakeweed (Gutierrezia sarothrae), while the grass species include blue grama (Bouteloua gracilis), sideoats grama (B. curtipendula), ..."

4. A Manual of Farm Grasses by Albert Spear Hitchcock (1921)
"The sod of which the early settlers built sod houses consisted chiefly of buffalo grass. Grama grass (Bouteloua gracilis (HBK) Lag.; ..."

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