bluegrass

Meaning

Noun

• Kentucky bluegrass, Poa pratensis.
• 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.

Origin

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