GRAMMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gramma mean? 

• GRAMMA (noun)
  The noun GRAMMA has 1 sense:

1. pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America

  Familiarity information: GRAMMA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRAMMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

grama; grama grass; gramma; gramma grass

Hypernyms ("gramma" 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 "gramma"):

blue grama; Bouteloua gracilis (a pasture grass of western North America)

black grama; Bouteloua eriopoda (a pasture grass (especially of western coastal regions of North America))

Holonyms ("gramma" is a member of...):

Bouteloua; genus Bouteloua (forage grasses)