grama

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹɑːmə/, /ˈɡɹamə/

grama (countable and uncountable, plural gramas)

1. Various species of grass in the genus Bouteloua, including Bouteloua gracilis
   • 1864: Fitz-Hugh Ludlow in 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, Tom Drury, "Path Lights", in The New Yorker, 17 October 2005

     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 2014, p. 95:

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

• Magar, marga, ragam, rāgam

From Latin grāmina (“grasses”).[1] Cognate with Portuguese grama and Spanish grama.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾama̝/

grama f (plural gramas)

1. grass, in particular
   1. couch grass (Elymus repens)

      Synonym: rengo

   2. Bermuda grass (Cynodon dactylon)

      Synonyms: cerreña, nervia

   3. velvetgrass (Holcus lanatus)

• “grama” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “grama” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “grama” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

grama f

1. feminine singular of gramo

grama m (plural gramas)

1. gram

• groma

From Proto-Germanic *gramô. Cognate with Old Saxon gramo, Old Saxon gremi, Old High German gramo, Old Norse gremi. Akin also to Old English gram (“angry, cruel, fierce”), grimm, grim (“fierce, savage”).

grama m (nominative plural graman)

1. anger, rage; trouble
2. demonic spirit, devil, demon; imp, puck

• Middle English: grame, grome
  • English: grame

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾɐ̃mɐ/
• Rhymes: -ama
• Hyphenation: gra‧ma

From Latin gramĭna

grama f (plural gramas)

1. grass

• erva
• relva f

From Ancient Greek γράμμα (grámma, “a small weight, a scruple”), a semantic calque of Latin scripulum.

grama m or f (nonstandard) (plural gramas)

1. gram (unit of mass)

• micrograma
• quilograma

From Latin gramĭna.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾama/
• Hyphenation: gra‧ma

grama f (uncountable)

1. grass (mostly varieties intended for cattle fodder)
2. (Caribbean) lawn

• “grama” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.