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rye-grass|ˈraɪgrɑːs, -æ-|
Also 8 rie-.
[In sense 1 an alteration of ray-grass. In sense 2 perh. directly f. rye n.1]
1. One or other of several species of Lolium, esp. L. perenne (common rye-grass) and L. italicum (Italian rye-grass), extensively cultivated as forage and fodder grasses.
A large number of varieties of the common species are described by Morton Cycl. Agric. II. 279–281.
1712J. Morton Nat. Hist. Northants. ix. 482 Rye-grass is with us accounted the best thing in the World for Wood-land in Enclosures. 1753Chambers' Cycl. Suppl. App., Rye-Grass, in botany, the same with what is otherwise called Rey-grass. 1766Museum Rust. VI. 196 The Red Darnel-grass, which has been so much cultivated, under the name of Ray-grass, or vulgarly Rie-grass. 1795Burke Thoughts Scarcity Wks. VII. 406 The rye-grass, or coarse bent, suffered more than the clover. 1814Scott Ld. of Isles iii. i, The rye-grass shakes not on the sod-built fold. 1834Brit. Husb. (L.U.K.) I. 515 Another species of this plant..has been lately introduced from the continent under the name of Italian rye-grass. 1871Kingsley At Last v, The ground on the opposite slope..is covered with a grass like tall rye-grass, but growing in tufts. 1961R. M. Patterson Buffalo Head vi. 216 The rocks were all hidden and a magnificent growth of rye-grass was swaying in the wind. 1979Buffalo (N.Y.) Evening News 18 May ii. 22/2 The new turf-type perennial rye-grasses available today are real beauties.
attrib.1747Franklin Let. Wks. 1887 II. 81, I sowed an acre more with two bushels of rye-grass seed. 1801Farmer's Mag. Aug. 312 Not rye grass hay, but hay made from rye cut green. 1890Service Notandums 5 Shall I reprint the roup bills o' my ryegrass parks? 1931R. Beale Bk. Lawn iv. 48 Rye grass mixtures..are recommended for heavy soils.
2. = wild rye (see quots. and rye n.1 2 c).
1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 325 Rye-grass, Hordeum. 1794Martyn Fl. Rustica III. 108 Rie-grass [Hordeum pratense] is not uncommon in good meadows. 1796Withering Brit. Pl. (ed. 3) II. 171 Hordeum murinum... Wild Rye. Rye-grass. 1846–50A. Wood Class-Bk. Bot. 621 Elymus villosus. Rye Grass. |