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BLUEGRASS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A type of country music played at a rapid tempo on banjos and guitars
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("bluegrass" is a kind of...):
C and W; country and western; country music (a simple style of folk music heard mostly in the southern United States; usually played on stringed instruments)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An area in central Kentucky noted for its bluegrass and thoroughbred horses
Synonyms:
Bluegrass; Bluegrass Country; Bluegrass Region
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Any of various grasses of the genus Poa
Synonyms:
blue grass; bluegrass
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("bluegrass" is a kind of...):
grass (narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bluegrass"):
June grass; Kentucky blue; Kentucky bluegrass; Kentucy blue grass; Poa pratensis (valuable meadow and pasture grass in Europe and especially central United States having tall stalks and slender bright green leaves; a chief constituent in lawn grass mixtures)
Holonyms ("bluegrass" is a member of...):
genus Poa; Poa (chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions)
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