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finger grass

DEFINITIONS OF: finger grass

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n grasses with creeping stems that root freely; a pest in lawns

Synonyms:
crab grass, crabgrass
Types:
Dactyloctenium aegypticum, Egyptian grass, crowfoot grass
a creeping grass with spikes like fingers
Digitaria ischaemum, smooth crabgrass
a weed
Digitaria sanguinalis, hairy finger grass, large crabgrass
a European forage grass grown for hay; a naturalized weed in United States
Type of:
grass
narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay

n any grass of the genus Chloris; occurs in short grassland especially on waste ground or poor soils

Types:
Chloris gayana, Rhodes grass
perennial grass of South Africa introduced into United States; cultivated as forage grass in dry regions
Chloris truncata, creeping windmill grass, star grass, windmill grass
perennial Australian grass having numerous long spikes arranged like the vanes of a windmill
Type of:
grass
narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay
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