Bluegrass
Definition & Meaning
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Bluegrass is a noun meaning Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis).
Meaning
Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis).
More Meanings
- (music, uncountable) 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.
Word Forms
- bluegrasses
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include speargrass, wintergrass, clubgrass, yardgrass, lopgrass.
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