|
  • Search Results
  • Advanced Search
  • List Builder
  • Random Word

wire grass

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: wire grass

1
 n
handsome hardy North American grass with foliage turning pale bronze in autumn
2
 n
coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: wire grass
1

n handsome hardy North American grass with foliage turning pale bronze in autumn

Synonyms:
Andropogon scoparius, Schizachyrium scoparium, broom beard grass, prairie grass
Type of:
broom grass
any of several grasses of the genus Andropogon; used in broom making
2

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

Synonyms:
Eleusine indica, goose 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
Launch
WORD FAMILY
USAGE EXAMPLES