Bunch grass Bot. A grass growing in bunches and affording pasture. In California, Atropis tenuifolia, Festuca scabrella, and several kinds of Stipa are favorite bunch grasses. In Utah, Eriocoma cuspidata is a good bunch grass.
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bunch grass
n : any of various grasses of many genera that grow in tufts or
clumps rather than forming a sod or mat; chiefly of
western United States [syn: bunchgrass]