bluegrass

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blue +‎ grass, from the bluish appearance of the massed grass in late Spring.

bluegrass (countable and uncountable, plural bluegrasses)

1. Kentucky bluegrass, Poa pratensis.

• annual bluegrass (Poa annua)
• Australian bluegrass (Andropogon sericeus)
• big bluegrass (Poa ampla)
• bulbous bluegrass (Poa bulbosa)
• California bluegrass (Poa fendleriana)
• Canada bluegrass (Poa compressa)
• English bluegrass (Poa compressa)
• fowl bluegrass (Poa palustris)
• Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis)
• Merion bluegrass
• mutton bluegrass (Poa fendleriana)
• Nevada bluegrass (Poa nevadensis)
• rough bluegrass (Poa trivialis)
• rough-stalked bluegrass (Poa trivialis)
• Sandberg bluegrass (Poa secunda)
• Shenendoah bluegrass (Poa pratensis)
• Texas bluegrass (Poa arachnifera)
• wood bluegrass (Poa nemoralis)

• Poa pratensis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Poa pratensis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Poa pratensis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

From the band Blue Grass Boys, led by Bill Monroe; bluegrass is first attested in print in reference to the genre of music in 1956.

bluegrass (uncountable)

1. (uncountable) A style of country music with roots in Scots-Irish Appalachian folk music, blues, and jazz and characterized by banjos, fiddles, acoustic guitars, dobros, and mandolins; but containing no drums, electric guitars, pianos or other keyboard or wind instruments.

• bluegrass-like
• progressive bluegrass
• newgrass

• high lonesome sound

• 2001. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: North America. Garland Publishing. Ellen Koskoff (Ed.) Pgs. 158-159.

Borrowed from English bluegrass.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbluɡɾas/, [ˈbluɣɾas]
• IPA^(key): /bluˈɡɾas/, [bluˈɣɾas]

bluegrass m (uncountable)

1. bluegrass (a style of country music)