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Buffalo grass   /bˈəfəlˌoʊ græs/   Listen
Buffalo grass

noun
1.
Low mat-forming grass of southern United States and tropical America; grown as a lawn grass.  Synonyms: St. Augustine grass, Stenotaphrum secundatum.
2.
Short grass growing on dry plains of central United States (where buffalo roam).  Synonym: Buchloe dactyloides.






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"Buffalo grass" Quotes from Famous Books



... home this time; and Norah crammed the blue silk sock hastily into a little work-bag, and raced away over the lawn, her slim black legs making great time across the buffalo grass. Beside her tore the collie and Puck, each a vision of embodied delight. They flashed round the corner of the house, scattered the gravel on the path leading to the back, and came out into the yard as a big black horse pulled up at the gate, ...
— Mates at Billabong • Mary Grant Bruce

... ahead. The mustangs had long since puffed themselves into their second wind, and, falling instinctively into their steady swinging lope, they moved ahead like machines. The country grew more and more rolling, even hilly. From between the tufts of buffalo grass now and then protruded the white face of a rock. Over one such, all but concealed in the darkness, Grover's horse stumbled, and with a groan, the rancher beneath, fell flat to earth. By a seeming miracle the man arose, but the horse did not, and an examination showed the ...
— Ben Blair - The Story of a Plainsman • Will Lillibridge



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