grama

See also: -grama and gräma

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish grama (“grass”), from Latin grāmina, plural of grāmen (“grass”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹɑːmə/, /ˈɡɹamə/

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Noun

grama (countable and uncountable, plural gramas)

1. Various species of grass in the genus Bouteloua, including Bouteloua gracilis (blue grama)
   • 1864, Fitz-Hugh Ludlow., The Atlantic:

     To understand the exquisite beauty of simple green grass, you must travel through eight hundred miles of sage-brush and grama...the latter, a stunted species of herbage, growing in ash tinted spirals, only two inches from the ground, and giving the Plains an appearance of being matted with curled hair or gray corkscrews. Its other name is “buffalo grass”; and in spite of its dinginess, with the assistance of the sage, converting all the Plains west of Fort Kearney into a model Quaker landscape, it is one of the most nutritious varieties of cattle fodder, and for hundreds of miles the emigrant drover’s only dependence.

   • 2005 October 17, Tom Drury, “Path Lights”, in The New Yorker:

     Every few years, Ingrid goes back to take a look, even though all that’s left is the old bleached shell of a house, surrounded by blue grama grass and tall trees with pale bark and waxy leaves.

   • 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 95:

     The grass was thick around us, grama and bluestem, more than could ever be eaten.

Derived terms

• gramagrass

Anagrams

• Magar, marga, ragam, rāgam

Catalan

Noun

grama f (plural grames)

1. alternative form of gram (“Bermuda grass”)

Further reading

• “grama” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Fala

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese [Term?], from Latin grāmina (“grasses”), plural of grāmen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾama/
• Rhymes: -ama
• Syllabification: gra‧ma

Noun

grama f (plural gramas)

1. grass

References

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021), Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎, 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN