Usually means: Tall grass native to prairies.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. bluestem: Merriam-Webster
  2. bluestem: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bluestem: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bluestem: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bluestem: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bluestem, bluestem: Wordnik
  7. bluestem: Wiktionary
  8. bluestem: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. bluestem: Dictionary.com
  10. Bluestem: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. bluestem: Rhymezone
  12. bluestem: FreeDictionary.org
  13. bluestem: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. bluestem: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bluestem: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bluestem)

▸ noun:  (US) Any of various grasses having bluish stems, including little bluestem and big bluestem.

Similar:
andropogon furcatus, andropogon gerardii, blue stem, bluestem grass, little bluestem, little bluestem grass, big bluestem, bluet, cane bluestem, bushy bluestem, more...

Phrases:
big bluestem, little bluestem, bluestem grass, sand bluestem, bluestem wheatgrass, more...

Adjectives:
big, little, tall, native, caucasian, dried, dominant, slender, east, pine

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Similar:
andropogon furcatus, andropogon gerardii, blue stem, bluestem grass, little bluestem, little bluestem grass, big bluestem, bluet, cane bluestem, bushy bluestem, more...

Phrases:
big bluestem, little bluestem, bluestem grass, sand bluestem, bluestem wheatgrass, cane bluestem, more...

Adjectives:
big, little, tall, native, caucasian, dried, dominant, slender, east, pine



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