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wheatgrass

DEFINITIONS OF: wheatgrass

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n a grass of the genus Agropyron

Synonyms:
wheat-grass
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Agropyron cristatum, crested wheat grass, crested wheatgrass, fairway crested wheat grass
Eurasian grass grown in United States great plains area for forage and erosion control
Agropyron repens, couch grass, dog grass, quack grass, quackgrass, quick grass, witch grass, witchgrass
European grass spreading rapidly by creeping rhizomes; naturalized in North America as a weed
Agropyron subsecundum, bearded wheatgrass
a wheatgrass with straight terminal awns on the flowering glumes
Agropyron smithii, bluestem wheatgrass, western wheatgrass
valuable forage grass of western United States
Agropyron intermedium, Elymus hispidus, intermediate wheatgrass
Asiatic grass introduced into United States rangelands for pasture and fodder
Agropyron pauciflorum, Agropyron trachycaulum, Elymus trachycaulos, slender wheatgrass
North American grass cultivated in western United States as excellent forage crop
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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