bluegrass

See also: blue grass and Bluegrass

English

bluegrass (Poa pratensis) young seed heads

Pronunciation

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Alternative forms

• blue grass

Etymology 1

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

Noun

bluegrass (countable and uncountable, plural bluegrasses)

1. Kentucky bluegrass, Poa pratensis.

Derived terms

• 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)
• Sandberg's bluegrass
• Wheeler's bluegrass

Translations

type of grass

• Dutch: veldbeemgras n
• Finnish: niittynurmikka (fi)
• French: pâturin des prés m
• German: Wiesenrispengras n
• Greenlandic: ivigaq narsaviarmiu
• Hungarian: perje (hu)
• Maori: pātītī taranui, tūtaekurī
• Navajo: tsinyaa tłʼoh

References

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

Etymology 2

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.

Noun

bluegrass (uncountable)

1. (music, uncountable) A subgenre 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.

Derived terms

• bluegrasser
• bluegrass gospel
• bluegrass jazz
• bluegrass-jazz
• bluegrass-like
• bluegrassy
• newgrass
• progressive bluegrass
• thrashgrass

 

Translations

style of country music

• Dutch: bluegrass (nl) m
• Finnish: bluegrass (fi)
• French: bluegrass (fr) m
• Georgian: ბლუგრასი (blugrasi)
• German: Bluegrass n

See also

• high lonesome sound

References

• “bluegrass”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• 2001. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: North America. Garland Publishing. Ellen Koskoff (Ed.) Pgs. 158-159.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English bluegrass.

Noun

bluegrass

1. bluegrass

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English bluegrass.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbluɡɾas/ [ˈblu.ɣ̞ɾas]
  • Rhymes: -uɡɾas
• IPA^(key): /bluˈɡɾas/ [bluˈɣ̞ɾas]
  • Rhymes: -as

Noun

bluegrass m (uncountable)

1. bluegrass (a style of country music)

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.