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goose grass

DEFINITIONS OF: goose grass

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n low-growing perennial having leaves silvery beneath; northern United States; Europe; Asia

Synonyms:
Potentilla anserina, goose-tansy, silverweed
Type of:
cinquefoil, five-finger
any of a numerous plants grown for their five-petaled flowers; abundant in temperate regions; alleged to have medicinal properties

n annual weedy grass used for hay

Synonyms:
Panicum Texanum, Texas millet
Type of:
panic grass
any grass of the genus Panicum; grown for grain and fodder

n coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere

Synonyms:
Eleusine indica, wire grass, yard grass, yardgrass
Type of:
millet
any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine

n annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia

Synonyms:
Galium aparine, catchweed, cleavers, clivers, spring cleavers
Type of:
bedstraw
any of several plants of the genus Galium
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