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ˈwire-grass
[f. wire n. + grass n.]
A name for various grasses or grass-like plants having wiry stems.
1. U.S. The British flat-stemmed meadow-grass Poa compressa, or the annual grass Eleusine indica, naturalized in North America.
1793M. Cutler in Life, etc. (1888) II. 294 Wire-grass, which is Poa compressa. 1856Olmsted Slave States 341 The wire-grass, which grew among the trees the previous year, is frequently set on fire..in the spring. 1856Gray Man. Bot. (1860) 554 Eleusine Indica. Dog's-tail or Wire Grass. 1883Harper's Mag. Oct. 710/2 The wire-grass had been roughly plaited into a little mat.
2. One of several other plants, as the West Indian Paspalum filiforme, the Australian Tetrarrhena (or Ehrharta) juncea, the North American Sporobolus junceus and species of Aristida.
1790W. Bligh Narr. Mutiny on Board H.M.S. Bounty 48 In the hollow of the land there grew some wire grass. 1824W. J. Burchell Trav. II. 5 The Wire-grass of the island of St. Helena. 1864Grisebach Flora W. Ind. Isl. 789 Wire-grass, Paspalum filiforme. 1883E. M. Curr Recoll. Squatting Victoria viii. 81 The wire-grass, however, largely predominating over the kangaroo grass. |