Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of coarse grasses, chiefly American.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a genus of reedlike grasses having spikes crowded in a panicle covered with long silky hairs.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun genus of reedlike grasses having spikes crowded in a panicle covered with long silky hairs
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Such good lawn grasses as arundo, pampas-grass, eulalias, and erianthus are perennials and are therefore not included in this discussion.
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