Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of grasses with the flower-spikelets forming a unilateral spike.
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The dry and stimulating food, which generally falls to his share, produces an irritation of his stomach, from which lie is glad to free himself; and for this purpose he has recourse to the sharp leaves of the cynosurus.
The Dog William Youatt 1811
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