The word grama, which means "village" in later Sanskrit, in the RgVeda meant basically a "group" of people. From Wordnik.com. [The Civic Platform - A Political Journal of Ideas and Analysis] Reference
We rested above an hour in the cool shade, while our horses refreshed themselves on the "grama" that grew luxuriantly around. From Wordnik.com. [The Scalp Hunters] Reference
Even grama came out and she was playing with her too. From Wordnik.com. [Outside Fun!] Reference
Blue grama-buffalograss was the natural prairie type. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Colorado (EPA)] Reference
Other grasses include grama, wheatgrass, and needlegrass. From Wordnik.com. [Great Plains-Palouse Dry Steppe Province (Bailey)] Reference
In many places, they are associated with short grass, such as grama. From Wordnik.com. [Chihuahuan Semidesert Province (Bailey)] Reference
Shorter dominants include blue grama, hairy grama, and buffalo grass. From Wordnik.com. [Great Plains Steppe Province (Bailey)] Reference
Saltbush species, alkali sacaton, sand dropseed, and mixed grama grasses occur. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of New Mexico (EPA)] Reference
They walked back along the river's edge, where the reeds gave way to the grama. From Wordnik.com. [Speaker for the Dead]
Interspersed are some grasslands of blue grama, Junegrass, and western wheatgrass. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Colorado (EPA)] Reference
Cedar hills prairie and bluestem grama prairie cover much of the rugged landscape. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Kansas and Nebraska (EPA)] Reference
Some western wheatgrass, vine-mesquite, areas of blue grama and sand dropseed occur. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of New Mexico (EPA)] Reference
Bluestem-grama prairie covers the finer textured soils characteristic of most of the province. From Wordnik.com. [Great Plains Steppe and Shrub Province (Bailey)] Reference
Still the Speaker lay there on the grama, looking at the clouds coming darkly out of the west. From Wordnik.com. [Speaker for the Dead]
The various species of grasses include purple needlegrass, blue grama, buffalo grass, and galleta. From Wordnik.com. [Grassland biome] Reference
The grass, consisting of several varieties of the grama, is of a superior quality, and grows luxuriantly. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862] Reference
The lower elevations on the Stockton Plateau are covered with Chihuahuan Desert shrubs and grama grasses. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)] Reference
They include blue grama and buffalo grass, cacti, sagebrush, speargrass, and small relatives of the sunflower. From Wordnik.com. [Grassland biome] Reference
A village development society (grama vikasa sabha) was established involving the traditional community leaders. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 9] Reference
The boy who walked beside him through the grama felt like his true son, as if he had known the boy from infancy. From Wordnik.com. [Speaker for the Dead]
There, Gambel oak, scrub oak, Joshua tree, and blue grama grass may be associated with pinyon – juniper woodland. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Nevada (EPA)] Reference
Arizona cottontop, sideoats grama, green sprangletop, and false rhodesgrass are dominant mid grasses on these soils. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)] Reference
There was a big barn, in poor repair compared to the house, and a few cattle grazing on weedy patches of grama grass. From Wordnik.com. [Spin] Reference
Ecoregion 43 is primarily used for rangeland and has a potential natural vegetation of grama - wheatgrass - needlegrass. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Montana (EPA)] Reference
Widely spaced juniper and pinyon typically occur in a matrix of sagebrush, grama grass, mountain mahogany, and Gambel oak. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Utah (EPA)] Reference
Limestone glades are dominated by little bluestem and side-oats grama, and contain southern flora (Schwegman, 1973, p. 28). From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Illinois (EPA)] Reference
Bluebunch wheatgrass, Idaho fescue, western wheatgrass, blue grama, and Sandberg bluegrass are the principal forage species. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Wyoming (EPA)] Reference
Typical grasses include little bluestem, Texas wintergrass, white tridens, Texas cupgrass, sideoats grama, and curlymesquite. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)] Reference
Some areas of sideoats grama and little bluestem, with blue grama, western wheatgrass, galleta, and buffalograss also occurred. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of New Mexico (EPA)] Reference
Okay, so being (um, vaguely) pants (shudder) explains why there's no slip, but I swear I can hear my grama exhorting "tap pants.". From Wordnik.com. [Everything in Moderation - A Dress A Day] Reference
They include side-oats grama (Bouteloua curtipendula), black grama (Bouteloua eriopoda), and purple three-awn (Aristida purpurea). From Wordnik.com. [Chihuahuan desert] Reference
The sod (covered with grama) looks undisturbed; it is hard and coarsely sandy on the top, but beneath the clay is softer and loamy. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos Papers Of The Archæological Institute Of America, American Series, Vol. I] Reference
The natural vegetation in this region is mostly grama-buffalograss, with some juniper-scrub oak-grass savanna on escarpment bluffs. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of New Mexico (EPA)] Reference
One day there's nothing there but grama, getting riper and riper; the next day the grama stalks are crawling with baby watersnakes. From Wordnik.com. [Speaker for the Dead]
The Llano Estacado was once covered with shortgrass prairie, composed of buffalograss, blue and sideoats grama, and little bluestem. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)] Reference
He pointed out different kinds of grasses: wheatgrass and little bluestem, June grass and dropseed, needlegrass and side-oats grama. From Wordnik.com. [Even Cowgirls Get The Blues]
This enclosed area, now covered with tufts of grama, occasional cactuses, knolls and scattered drift and pottery, was according to Sr. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos Papers Of The Archæological Institute Of America, American Series, Vol. I] Reference
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