western wheatgrass

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   valuable forage grass of western United States

   Synonymsbluestem wheatgrassAgropyron smithii

   Broaderwheatgrass

Questions about western wheatgrass

What does western wheatgrass mean?

western wheatgrass means "valuable forage grass of western United States".

What is another word for western wheatgrass?

Close synonyms include bluestem wheatgrass, Agropyron smithii. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is western wheatgrass a common word?

western wheatgrass is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.