Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various annual or perennial grasses of the genus Eragrostis, some of which are cultivated for their delicate, spraylike inflorescences.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
love grass .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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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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As an erosion-fighting plant, weeping lovegrass is better than tef because it is a perennial whose natural staying power keeps the land covered as the seasons go by.
12. Tef 1996
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In the Transvaal, as well as in other parts of South Africa, tef is often sown with its relative, weeping lovegrass (Eragrostis curvula).
12. Tef 1996
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Weeping lovegrass is quite well known as a forage (in the dry Southwest of the United States, for instance), but van Wyk has searched through every nook and cranny of South Africa (the plant's native habitat) seeking out special genotypes with qualities for erosion control.
Chapter 11 1993
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Instead, weeping lovegrass (Eragrostis curvula) covers slopes with a perennial carpet of vegetation that acts en masse to protect the ground from rain and wind.
Chapter 11 1993
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Weeping lovegrass stays in place and does its job for years, he says, but it is slow to establish.
Chapter 11 1993
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North Burnett grazier Ian Lautitt says he has lost nearly half his Glenleigh property to the African lovegrass.
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North Burnett graziers say the spread of the noxious African lovegrass weed is crippling production in the region.
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Some of the more than 30 grasses and flowers in the garden will include buffalo grass, little bluestem, sand lovegrass, blackeyed Susans, bluebonnet, standing cypress, primroses, coreopsis and Indian paintbrush.
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An agronomist at Oklahoma State University, Regents Professor Emeritus Charles Taliaferro, designed and conducted an experiment to determine biomass yield from alternative levels of nitrogen fertilizer for a single and double harvest per year system for four perennial grass species (bermudagrass, flaccidgrass, lovegrass, and switchgrass).
unknown title 2009
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