rice grass

/raɪs græs/

Definitions of rice grass

1. noun

   any grass of the genus Oryzopsis
   synonyms: ricegrass

   types:

   Indian millet, Oryzopsis hymenoides, mountain rice, silk grass, silkgrass

   valuable forage grass of dry upland areas and plains of western North America to northern Mexico

   Oryzopsis miliacea, smilo, smilo grass

   perennial mountain rice native to Mediterranean region and introduced into North America

   type of:

   cereal, cereal grass

   grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet