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BLUESTEM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bluestem mean?
• BLUESTEM (noun)
The noun BLUESTEM has 1 sense:
1. tall grass with smooth bluish leaf sheaths grown for hay in the United States
Familiarity information: BLUESTEM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tall grass with smooth bluish leaf sheaths grown for hay in the United States
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Andropogon furcatus; Andropogon gerardii; blue stem; bluestem
Hypernyms ("bluestem" is a kind of...):
grass (narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay)
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