Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Orchard grass.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The orchard-grass, Dactylis glomerata, tall and coarse, but valuable for hay, and growing well in the shade: so called from the dense branches of the one-sided panicle. It is native in Europe, but widely naturalized in other temperate countries.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun widely grown stout Old World hay and pasture grass

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Examples

  • And the recent discovery of PPO activity in forage grasses, such as cocksfoot could allow the transfer of genetic material from these grasses to provide a protein protection mechanism that can be exploited.

    FWi - All News 2010

  • In view of St Buryan's church but out of sight of the Pipers menhirs, the 19 stones of the Merry Maidens appeared mired in their circle surrounded by cocksfoot and dandelions.

    Country diary: Cornwall Virginia Spiers 2010

  • He was pulling at the heads of the cocksfoot grass as he walked.

    The Trespasser 2003

  • Sometimes a mixture of cocksfoot, English rye-grass, and white clover is used, or the two grasses alone are planted.

    Australia, The Dairy Country Australia. Dept. of External Affairs

  • Thus in the dry sandy soil you may find broom, spurrey, sheep's fescue, pine trees, all with narrow leaves; whilst on the moister soil you may find burdock, primroses, cocksfoot and other broad-leaved plants.

    Lessons on Soil E. J. Russell

  • The test tube experiment should now be made with a narrow-leaved grass like sheep's fescue and with a wide-leaved grass like cocksfoot.

    Lessons on Soil E. J. Russell

  • Here is the rough "cocksfoot grass," with its head or

    Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children W. Houghton

  • He was pulling at the heads of the cocksfoot grass as he walked.

    The Trespasser 1907

  • English cocksfoot and rye grass, which had been put in gradually as the dense vine scrub was felled and burnt off, is now a barren desert, and nine families out of every ten which were renting properties have been compelled to leave the district and take up other lands.

    Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895

  • There was little knowledge of the various sorts of grasses at this time, and to Young is due the credit of introducing the cocksfoot, and crested dog's tail.

    A Short History of English Agriculture 1893

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