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Definition of Blue stem
1. Noun. Tall grass with smooth bluish leaf sheaths grown for hay in the United States.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blue Stem
Literary usage of Blue stem
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fungous Diseases of Plants, with Chapters on Physiology, Culture Methods and by Benjamin Minge Duggar (1909)
"It is commonly stated that fields heavily fertilized with barnyard manure develop
a higher percentage of smutted corn. V. SMUT OF BLUE-STEM GRASS ..."
2. Manual of Fruit Diseases by Lexemuel Ray Hesler, Herbert Hice Whetzel (1917)
"(See fuller account under Apple, page 96.) BLUE-STEM Caused by ... In general,
when raspberries are affected with blue-stem the plants fail to mature the ..."
3. The Cereals in America by Thomas Forsyth Hunt (1908)
"The two types of hard spring wheat of which there are many varieties are the Fife
and the blue stem. Both are beardless with white glumes, which in the Blue ..."
4. Wheat Fields and Markets of the World by Rollin Edson Smith (1908)
"The best quality of blue-stem grades No. 1 northern, and is called in ... However,
some sub-varieties of fife and blue-stem were found that yielded rather ..."
5. The Wheat Plant: Its Origin, Culture, Growth, Development, Composition by John Hancock Klippart (1860)
"The common blue stem was cultivated for some years, on account of its having ...
The White blue stem is white wheat, nearly smooth; the Mediterranean is red ..."
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