Borrowed fromSpanish grama ( “ grass ” ) , fromLatin grāmina grāmen ( “ grass ” ) .
grama (countable anduncountable plural gramas
Various species ofgrass in the genusBouteloua Bouteloua gracilis blue grama )1864 The Atlantic :To understand the exquisite beauty of simple green grass, you must travel through eight hundred miles of sage-brush andgrama ...the latter, a stunted species of herbage, growing in ash tinted spirals, only two inches from the ground, and giving the Plains an appearance of being matted with curled hair or gray corkscrews. Its other name is “buffalo grass”; and in spite of its dinginess, with the assistance of the sage, converting all the Plains west of Fort Kearney into a model Quaker landscape, it is one of the most nutritious varieties of cattle fodder, and for hundreds of miles the emigrant drover’s only dependence.
2005 October 17, Tom Drury, “Path Lights”, inThe New Yorker :Every few years, Ingrid goes back to take a look, even though all that’s left is the old bleached shell of a house, surrounded by bluegrama grass and tall trees with pale bark and waxy leaves.
2013 Philipp Meyer ,The Son , Simon & Schuster, published2014 , page95 :The grass was thick around us,grama and bluestem, more than could ever be eaten.
grama f plural grames
alternative form ofgram ( “ Bermuda grass ” ) “grama” inDiccionari català-valencià-balear , Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.FromOld Galician-Portuguese [Term?] , fromLatin grāmina ( “ grasses ” ) , plural ofgrāmen
IPA (key ) : /ˈɡɾama/ Rhymes:-ama Syllabification:gra‧ma grama f plural gramas
grass Valeš, Miroslav (2021 ),Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web) [2] 2022 ,→ISBN FromOld Galician-Portuguese [Term?] , fromLatin grāmina ( “ grasses ” ) , plural ofgrāmen [ 1] Portuguese grama Spanish grama
IPA (key ) : ( standard ) /ˈɡɾama/ [ˈɡɾa.mɐ] IPA (key ) : ( gheada ) /ˈħɾama/ [ˈħɾa.mɐ]
grama f plural gramas
grass , in particularcouch grass (Elymus repens Synonym: rengo Bermuda grass (Cynodon dactylon Synonyms: cerreña nervia velvetgrass (Holcus lanatus wheatgrass (Agropyron Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández , editor (2006–2013 ), “grama ”, inDicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language Instituto da Lingua Galega Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández ,Ernesto Xosé González Seoane ,María Álvarez de la Granja , editors (2003–2018 ), “grama ”, inTesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega Rosario Álvarez Blanco , editor (2014–2024 ), “grama ”, inTesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega ,→ISSN grama
inflection ofgramar third-person singular present indicative second-person singular imperative grama
feminine singular ofgramo grama m plural gramas
gram FromProto-Germanic *gramô Old Saxon gramo Old Saxon gremi Old High German gramo Old Norse gremi Old English gram ( “ angry, cruel, fierce ” ) ,grimm grim ( “ fierce, savage ” ) .
grama m nominative plural graman
anger ,rage ,wrath ,indignation ,fury ;trouble demonic spirit,devil ,fiend ,demon ;imp ,puck Weak:
FromOld Galician-Portuguese [Term?] , fromLatin grāmĭna grāmen Galician Spanish grama
grama f plural gramas
Bermuda grass ( Brazil ) grass Synonyms: relva erva Borrowed fromAncient Greek γράμμα ( grámma ,“ a small weight, a scruple ” ) , a semantic calque of Latinscripulum
grama m or( nonstandard ) f plural gramas
gram ( unit of mass ) See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
grama
inflection ofgramar third-person singular present indicative second-person singular imperative “grama ”, inDicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa 2025 “grama ”, inMichaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa 2025 “grama ”, inDicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa 2025 “grama ”, inDicionário Aulete Digital 2025 “grama ” inDicionário Aberto based onNovo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo , 1913 Inherited fromLatin grāmĭna grāmen Portuguese grama
IPA (key ) : /ˈɡɾama/ [ˈɡɾa.ma] Rhymes:-ama Syllabification:gra‧ma grama f plural gramas
grass ( mostly varieties intended for cattle fodder ) ( Caribbean , Guatemala , El Salvador ) lawn 
