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sour grass
Also sour-grass.
[sour a.]
1. A tropical grass of the genus Paspalum.
1756P. Browne Jamaica 365 Sour Grass. The roots and leaves of this plant..cure sores and ulcers. 1864Grisebach Flora Brit. W. Ind. 787 Sour-grass, Paspalum conjugatum.
2. One or other variety of sorrel (Rumex or Oxalis). Also attrib.
1866J. E. Brogden Prov. Lincs., Sour-grass, Sour-sauce, the ground sorrel, Oxalis pratense. 1888‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms xx, The long sour-grass..was dripping with the night dew. 1889J. H. Maiden Usef. Plants 50 Oxalis corniculata,..‘Clover Sorrel’, or ‘Sour Grass’. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 311 Bred in a ‘sour grass’ country, far inferior for fattening purposes.
3. S. Afr. The coarse grass characteristic of sour veld (see sour a. 11).
1801J. Barrow Acct. Trav. S. Afr. I. iii. 110 That division of the district called the Zuure-veldt, or Sour Grass plains. 1852M. B. Hudson S. Afr. Frontier Life I. 236 About Graham's Town and Lower Albany is ‘the Zuurveld or Sour Grass Country’. |