BLUE GRASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blue grass mean? 

• BLUE GRASS (noun)
  The noun BLUE GRASS has 1 sense:

1. any of various grasses of the genus Poa

  Familiarity information: BLUE GRASS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLUE GRASS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various grasses of the genus Poa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

blue grass; bluegrass

Hypernyms ("blue grass" is a kind of...):

grass (narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blue grass"):

June grass; Kentucky blue; Kentucky bluegrass; Kentucy blue grass; Poa pratensis (valuable meadow and pasture grass in Europe and especially central United States having tall stalks and slender bright green leaves; a chief constituent in lawn grass mixtures)

Holonyms ("blue grass" is a member of...):

genus Poa; Poa (chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions)