KENTUCKY BLUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Kentucky blue mean? 

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

1. 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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• KENTUCKY BLUE (noun)

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

June grass; Kentucky blue; Kentucky bluegrass; Kentucy blue grass; Poa pratensis

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

blue grass; bluegrass (any of various grasses of the genus Poa)

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

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