rye grass

Synonyms:

ryegrass

Types:

English ryegrass, Lolium perenne, perennial ryegrass

European perennial grass widely cultivated for pasture and hay and as a lawn grass

Italian rye, Italian ryegrass, Lolium multiflorum

European grass much used for hay and in United States also for turf and green manure

Lolium temulentum, bearded darnel, cheat, darnel, tare

weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous

Type of:

grass

narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay