Meaning

(colloquial) A grandmother..

Definitions by Sense

1. (colloquial) A grandmother.
2. (Australia) A variety of pumpkin, a cultivar of Cucurbita moschata.
3. Alternative form of grama.
4. Something that is written.
5. The subjects of reading, writing, and arithmetic.

Example Sentences

Go on, there, driver, gramma is going.

My gramma—all her hair is white Like snow is, but it isn't cold.

Polly trotted here and there with motions of taking gramma's hand, and so forth.

Traditionally Cucurbita maxima and Cucurbita moschata have been placed into two groups - pumpkins and grammas respectively.

1941, H. Barnes, Robert Veitch, Queensland Department of Agriculture and Stock, John Howard Simmonds, The Queensland Agricultural and Pastoral Handbook, Volume 1, page 238, Pumpkins and grammas are harvested when mature, usually when the vines have died or been frosted.

1983, Margaret Fulton, Encyclopedia of Food and Cookery: The Complete Kitchen Companion from A to Z, Revised 2005, Republished 2009, page 493, Gramma, or bugle, pumpkin is the variety traditionally used for pumpkin pie, but if it is not available, use butternut instead.

The papaw pumpkin belongs to a different species (C. moschata) and is classed as a gramma.

Accompanying said proposal any effort was made by the government to was a bond executed by said Drachman as obtain gramma hay for use at Ft. Huachuca.

Word Forms

• grammas
• grammata

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