wiry+grass
21hair grass — noun fine leaved aquatic spike rush; popular as aerator for aquariums • Syn: ↑needle spike rush, ↑needle rush, ↑slender spike rush, ↑Eleocharis acicularis • Hypernyms: ↑spike rush * * * noun …
22orange grass — noun annual wiry stemmed North American weed with minute scalelike leaves and small yellow flowers • Syn: ↑nitweed, ↑pineweed, ↑pine weed, ↑Hypericum gentianoides • Hypernyms: ↑St John s wort * * * noun : a No. American w …
23wire grass — noun Date: 1751 any of various grasses or rushes having wiry culms or leaves: as a. a Eurasian slender stemmed meadow grass (Poa compressa) widely naturalized in the United States and Canada b. any of several coarse grasses (genus Aristida) with… …
24wire grass — noun chiefly N. Amer. & Austral. grass with tough wiry stems …
25alkali grass — noun plant of western North America having grasslike leaves and greenish white flowers • Syn: ↑Zigadenus elegans • Hypernyms: ↑death camas, ↑zigadene • Member Holonyms: ↑Zigadenus, ↑genus Zigadenus * * * …
26burro grass — noun : a tufted grass (Scleropogon brevifolius) of semiarid plains and open valleys of the southwestern United States with wiry stolons, leaves that are flat and crowded at the base, and spikelets with long twisted awns …
27false buffalo grass — noun : a low tufted grass (Munroa squarrosa) of the western United States with stiff leaves and wiry branches …
28bent grass — noun Date: 1677 any of a genus (Agrostis) of grasses including important chiefly perennial and rhizomatous pasture and lawn grasses with fine velvety or wiry herbage …
29alkali grass — a plant, Zigadenus elegans, of central and western North America, having tough, wiry, bluish green leaves and greenish flowers. [1865 70, Amer.] * * * …
30blue-eyed grass — any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Sisyrinchium, of the iris family, having grasslike leaves and small, usually blue, flowers. [1775 85] * * * ▪ plant any of the more than 75 species of Sisyrinchium, native to the Americas and… …
