bluegrassとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

別の表記

• blue grass

語源 1

blue +‎ grass, from the bluish appearance of the massed grass in late Spring.

名詞

bluegrass (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 bluegrasses)

1. Kentucky bluegrass, Poa pratensis.

派生語

• annual bluegrass (Poa annua)
• Australian bluegrass (Andropogon sericeus)
• big bluegrass (Poa ampla)
• bulbous bluegrass (Poa bulbosa)
• California bluegrass (Poa fendleriana)
• Canada bluegrass (Poa compressa)
• English bluegrass (Poa compressa)
• fowl bluegrass (Poa palustris)
• Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis)
• Merion bluegrass
• mutton bluegrass (Poa fendleriana)
• Nevada bluegrass (Poa nevadensis)
• rough bluegrass (Poa trivialis)
• rough-stalked bluegrass (Poa trivialis)
• Sandberg bluegrass (Poa secunda)
• Shenendoah bluegrass (Poa pratensis)
• Texas bluegrass (Poa arachnifera)
• wood bluegrass (Poa nemoralis)

参照

• Poa pratensis on Wikipedia.
• Poa pratensis on Wikispecies.
• Poa pratensis on Wikimedia Commons.

語源 2

From the band Blue Grass Boys, led by Bill Monroe; bluegrass is first attested in print in reference to the genre of music in 1956.

名詞

bluegrass (uncountable)

1. (uncountable) A style 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.