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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]- A grass with very slender leaves or branches, as:
- Agrostis scabra, a bunchgrass.
- Several species of Aira.
- Species of junegrass (Koeleria).
- Several species of tussock grass (Deschampsia).
Synonyms
[edit]- (Agrostis scabra): rough bent grass, rough bent, ticklegrass, tumbleweed, winter bentgrass
Derived terms
[edit]- Antarctic hair grass (Deschampsia antarctica)
- crested hair grass (Koeleria macrantha)
- glaucous hair grass (Koeleria glauca)
- silver hair grass (Aira caryophyllea)
- silvery hair grass (Aira caryophyllea)
- tufted hair grass (Deschampsia caespitosa)
- water hair grass (Catabrosa aquatica)
References
[edit]Agrostis scabra on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Agrostis scabra on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Agrostis scabra on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Aira on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Aira on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Aira on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Koeleria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Koeleria on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Koeleria on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Deschampsia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Deschampsia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Deschampsia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “hair grass”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)