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Grama vs Gramma - What's the difference?

grama | gramma |

As a noun grama

is a type of grass,.

As a proper noun gramma is

.

grama

English

Noun

  • A type of grass,
  • * 2005 , Tom Drury, "Path Lights", in The New Yorker , 17 October 2005
  • 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 blue grama grass and tall trees with pale bark and waxy leaves.

    Anagrams

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    gramma

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Australia) A variety of pumpkin, a cultivar of Cucurbita moschata .
  • 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.
  • * 1952 , Desmond Andrew Herbert, Gardening in Warm Climates , page 151,
  • The papaw pumpkin belongs to a different species (C. moschata ) and is classed as a gramma .
  • * 1983 , , 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.
  • (informal) grandmother
  • Synonyms

    * (Cucurbita moschata cultivar) ----