English Explanatory Dictionary

bluegrass

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis).
noun
  1. 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; using a bass fiddle to carry its rhythm.

Pronunciation

en-us-bluegrass.ogg

Word forms

bluegrass bluegrasses

Etymology

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

Related words

high lonesome sound

Derived words

annual bluegrass Australian bluegrass big bluegrass bulbous bluegrass California bluegrass Canada bluegrass English bluegrass fowl bluegrass Kentucky bluegrass Merion bluegrass mutton bluegrass Nevada bluegrass rough bluegrass rough-stalked bluegrass Sandberg bluegrass Sandberg's bluegrass Shenendoah bluegrass Texas bluegrass Wheeler's bluegrass wood bluegrass bluegrasser bluegrass gospel bluegrass jazz bluegrass-jazz bluegrass-like bluegrassy newgrass progressive bluegrass thrashgrass
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