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wool grass

/wʊl græs/
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Definitions of wool grass
  1. noun
    sedge of eastern North America having numerous clustered woolly spikelets
    synonyms: Scirpus cyperinus
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    type of:
    sedge
    grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers
  2. noun
    grass often cultivated for its long white-ribbed leaves and large plumes resembling those of pampas grass
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    plume grass
    a reedlike grass of the genus Erianthus having large plumes
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