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  • He gave each new model a pet name—the first was a "Weedie" and the second a "Clippie"—and designed logos for each based on portraits of his children with unruly, grass-like hair.

    Dance Studio Owner Invented Weed Eater Stephen Miller 2011

  • Wild sarsaparilla, wild oats, Solomon's seal and a host of understory plants die off; grass-like species such as Pennsylvania sedge take over.

    The Real Story of Globalization Charles C. Mann 2011

  • He gave each new model a pet name—the first was a "Weedie" and the second a "Clippie"—and designed logos for each based on portraits of his children with unruly, grass-like hair.

    Dance Studio Owner Invented Weed Eater Stephen Miller 2011

  • Plant amid billowy green tufts of grass-like Lomandra "Breeze."

    3 succulents to consider for California gardens 2010

  • Look up, and you might see the grass-like leaves of the giants of coal age forests, the lycopids, or the diamond patterns of their bark.

    Archive 2008-09-01 The Nag 2008

  • The Vetiver has grown rich and earthy over time, maintaining a distinctive, sweet grass-like character that turns me into jelly every time I smell it on myself or a man dark chocolate and saffron have the same effect so if the three are ever combined I will be a slave to the provocateur.

    Kiehl's Vetiver Essence: A Case Study for Countering Hyper Regulation? Michelle Krell Kydd 2009

  • In a couple of weeks or so, however, impossibly green slivers of grass-like leaves will break through the ice, silver stripes down their middle.

    Archive 2009-02-01 doyle 2009

  • In a couple of weeks or so, however, impossibly green slivers of grass-like leaves will break through the ice, silver stripes down their middle.

    Crocus doyle 2009

  • The hairy, grass-like leaves originate from the base of the plant.

    Seeing Yellow In A Mish Mash Way « Fairegarden 2009

  • Yellow Star Grass, Hypoxis hirsuta is a low, tufted, grass-like perennial, growing 3-8 in. tall from a hard, hairy corm.

    Seeing Yellow In A Mish Mash Way « Fairegarden 2009

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