Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Cleavers, a species of bedstraw, Galium Aparine.—2. The silverweed, Potentilla Anserina.
- noun The darnel, Bromus mollis.
- noun The doorweed, Polygonum aviculare.
- noun Same as
crowfoot-grass , 2, and wire-grass, 2. - noun The Texas millet, Panicum Texanum. See
millet . - noun The low speargrass, Poa annua.
- noun The sea spear-grass, Puccinellia maritima.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A low-growing perennial (
Potentilla anserina ) having leaves silvery beneath; foundin Northern U. S., Europe, and Asia.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun low-growing perennial having leaves silvery beneath; northern United States; Europe; Asia
- noun coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere
- noun annual weedy grass used for hay
- noun annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia
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Examples
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She plucked the goose-grass buttons from her dress in a nervous, desperate fashion.
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It was none too clean, I cleansed it for him, and dressed it with some of your goose-grass unguent.
St. Peter's Fair Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981
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It was none too clean, I cleansed it for him, and dressed it with some of your goose-grass unguent.
St. Peter's Fair Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981
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Brother Cadfael walked across to the guest hall before Compline, and took with him not only a pot of his goose-grass salve for Hugh Beringar's numerous minor grazes, but also Giles Siward's dagger, with its topaz finial carefully restored.
One Corpse Too Many Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1979
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Brother Cadfael did not go straight to the mill on his return, but halted to check that his workshop was in order, and to pound up his goose-grass in a mortar, and prepare a smooth green salve from it.
One Corpse Too Many Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1979
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He needed goose-grass to make a dressing for it, he would look along the fringe of the fields, it must be plentiful here.
One Corpse Too Many Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1979
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The dry grass was well laced with small herbs now rustling and dead but still fragrant, and there was a liberal admixture of hooky, clinging goose-grass in it.
One Corpse Too Many Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1979
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Brother Cadfael put it away carefully in the scrip at his girdle, and went to look for his goose-grass.
One Corpse Too Many Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1979
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How fearless all the wild things are! the banks with goose-grass gleam,
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"The reason I asked, a fellow told me you made your soup out of muskrat-tails and goose-grass."
The Huntress Hulbert Footner 1911
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