BLUEGRASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bluegrass mean? 

• BLUEGRASS (noun)
  The noun BLUEGRASS has 3 senses:

1. any of various grasses of the genus Poa

2. an area in central Kentucky noted for its bluegrass and thoroughbred horses

3. a type of country music played at a rapid tempo on banjos and guitars

  Familiarity information: BLUEGRASS used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLUEGRASS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various grasses of the genus Poa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

blue grass; bluegrass

Hypernyms ("bluegrass" 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 "bluegrass"):

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 ("bluegrass" is a member of...):

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

An area in central Kentucky noted for its bluegrass and thoroughbred horses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Bluegrass; Bluegrass Country; Bluegrass Region

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A type of country music played at a rapid tempo on banjos and guitars

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("bluegrass" is a kind of...):

C and W; country and western; country music (a simple style of folk music heard mostly in the southern United States; usually played on stringed instruments)