Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Grass of the genus Sctaria.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun grasses of grasslands and woodlands having large gracefully arching spikes with long bristles beneath each spikelet.
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- noun grasses of grasslands and woodlands having large gracefully arching spikes with long bristles beneath each spikelet
- noun grasses of grasslands and woodlands having large gracefully arching spikes with long bristles beneath each spikelet
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Examples
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Little bluestem, sideoats grama, lovegrass tridens, multiflowered false rhodesgrass, Arizona cottontop, plains bristlegrass, and other mid grasses are dominant on deeper soils.
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Brushy species from adjacent dry uplands occur at the margins, such as honey mesquite, huisache, blackbrush, and lotebush, with some grasses such as multiflowered false rhodesgrass, sacaton, cottontop, and plains bristlegrass.
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The airport quality inn for one of the perturbing bay sententiously disjointedly hygrometer hedgerow, bristlegrass doojigger, has not truthfully immaculate a hamartia of symphony but that all scouser be resurgent.
Rational Review 2009
reesetee commented on the word bristlegrass
See skipvia's Prairie Grasses.
February 12, 2008