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bluegrass region

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.15 in modern English

Syllables
blue-grass re-gion
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A geographic region in the U.S. state of Kentucky, making up the northern part of the state, roughly bounded by the cities of Frankfort, Paris, Richmond and Stanford.

name

Alternative letter-case form of Bluegrass region.

Etymology

Named for the amount of bluegrass (grass of the Poa genus) that grows in the region.

Questions

What does bluegrass region mean?
A geographic region in the U.S. state of Kentucky, making up the northern part of the state, roughly bounded by the cities of Frankfort, Paris, Richmond and Stanford.
Where does bluegrass region come from?
Named for the amount of bluegrass (grass of the Poa genus) that grows in the region.

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