Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various bunch grasses of the genus Aristida having thin wiry stems, such as A. stricta of the southeast United States or A. purpurea of western North America.
- noun Any of various mat-forming grasses, such as Bermuda grass, having tough wiry roots or rootstocks.
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- noun Any of various unrelated
grasses .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Conceive if you will twoinch lengths of stiff wire -- and this plant is vulgarly called wiregrass in some regions just as it is called devilgrass here -- bent on either end at rightangles.
Greener Than You Think Ward Moore 1940
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Amongst the best of these is the "wiregrass," found in woods, growing especially over runnels in those localities.
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You might roll up against the wiregrass, or you might reach the pine needles, or you might have a clear, firm lie.
A Classic Returns to Its Natural State Jeff Neuman 2011
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Eighty thousand wiregrass plants, whose wispy tufts are more an impediment than an obstruction, were planted by hand in a largely random pattern, though concentrated more heavily alongside the landing areas for the professionals' drives.
A Classic Returns to Its Natural State Jeff Neuman 2011
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Once you got off the fairways, it was wiregrass and hardpack sand.
A Classic Returns to Its Natural State Jeff Neuman 2011
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And if a U.S. Open is decided by the random luck of one player's bounce into the wiregrass while another's errors go unpunished, so be it.
A Classic Returns to Its Natural State Jeff Neuman 2011
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Pinehurst Resort Waste areas and wiregrass, formerly Bermuda grass, on the 12th hole.
A Classic Returns to Its Natural State Jeff Neuman 2011
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They are cordgrass and wiregrass, common species that wave in the winds in south Louisiana's coastal marshes.
How oil-damaged marsh grasses recover could affect gulf's rebound 2010
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And on the science pages we look into cordgrass and wiregrass - two tough inhabitants of the Lousiana coastal marshes.
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On drier sites, turkey oak and blackjack oak grow with longleaf pine and a wiregrass ground cover.
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