Cattle, men, and horses had passed through a country which was familiar to them; a country featured by long grama grass, greasewood, and cactus plants.
The gray of the grama grass and the bare stretches of alkali shone white in the glare of a sun that swam in a cloudless sky of deepest azure.
None was taken in the upland parts of the relict area where buffalo grass and blue gramadominated the association.
The Occhans are a class of temple priests, usually officiate as pujaris at Pidari and other Amman (Grama Devata) temples.
The Pallans are nominally Saivites, but in reality devil worshippers, and do puja to the Grama Devata (village deities), especially those whose worship requires the consumption of flesh and liquor.
The name Occhan is derived from the Tamil ochai, meaning sound, in reference to the usual mode of invoking the Grama Devatas (village deities) by beating on a drum and singing their praises.
Now and then, in this world of pine trees, we came upon patches of grama grass.
In spite of the rest here, the animals did not seem to improve on the grama and buffalo grass.
And se gesewenlica deofol thonne wyrcdh ungerima wundra, and cwydh thaet he sylf God beo, and wile neadian mancynn to his gedwylde; ac his tima ne bidh na langsum; forthan the Godes grama hine fordedh, and theos weoruld bidh sidhdhan geendod.
She is then called the grama devata, or village goddess, of the particular hamlet.
A title of Occhans, who are Saivites, and priests at temples of Grama Devatas (village deities).
When the wedding day has been fixed, the bridegroom's party distributegrama thambulam (village pan-supari or betel) to the headman and villagers.
A title of Occhans, or pujaris (priests) at temples of Grama Devatas (village deities).
The Pattanavans are Saivites, but also worship various minor gods and Grama Devatas (village deities).
Archaka, or Umai Archaka, is a title of Occhans, who are priests at temples of Grama Devatas (village deities).
A sub-division of Kallan, named after Aiyanar, the only male deity among the Grama Devata or village deities.
Grama Devatas (village deities) at the temples known as Amman-koil.
Prior to the betrothal ceremony, female ancestors, Vigneswara, and the Grama Devata (village deities) are worshipped.
The Khatris are Saivites, and wear the sacred thread, but also worship various grama devatas (village deities).
Various village goddesses (grama devata) are also worshipped, and, though the Kammalans profess to be vegetarians, animal sacrifices are offered to them.
In every village there are two headmen, the Grama Gauda and the Vattu or Gattu Gauda.
This species is next in value and extent of distribution to the grama grass.
On what was once the buffalo range of the British Possessions this rank grass formed the bulk of the winter pasturage, and in that region is quite as famous as our grama grass.
The grama grass is very short, the leaves being usually not more than 2 or 3 inches in length and crowded together at the base of the stems.
In one other way was the sparsity of the grazing partly made up, for the grama grass was a concentrated food, its small seed capsules reputed to contain a nourishment approaching that of oats of the same size.
Prickly pears, Spanish bayonets, masses of greasewood bushes and scattering fringes of short grama grass completed the carpeting of the desolate plain.
Even here the grama grass was not entirely missing, and a nooning of two hours was taken to let the animals crop as much of it as they could find.
Good growth of grama and needle grasses in October, following summer growth and before grazing off by cattle and rodents.
Crowfoot grama (Bouteloua rothrockii) stands first in quantity in the total, forming 39.
Footnote 5: This amount of dry grama grass seed (heads) amounts to approximately a bushel.
These soils are ideally suited to the growth of short grasses, especially blue grama and buffalo grass.
The abundance of grasses decreases and mid grasses such as little bluestem and sideoats grama increase.
Never but once had the sheep been in that broad valley, and the heavy rains had brought out long tufts of grama grass from the bunchy roots along the hillsides.
And Rufus Hardy, quick to understand, gazed also at the arid slopes, where once the grama had waved like tawny hair in the soft winds and the cattle of Jeff Creede's father had stood knee-high in flowers.
We take off the packs from the animals, and let them nibble away at the rich grama and gallinas grasses that flourish here after the summer rains.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grama" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
