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单词 feather grass
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feather grass


noun

any American grass of the genus Stipa, having a feathery appendage.
Also called needle grass .

Origin of feather grass

First recorded in 1770–80

Words nearby feather grass

feather duster, feather-duster worm, feathered, featheredge, feather geranium, feather grass, featherhead, feathering, feather in one's cap, feather key, feather-legged
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Example sentences from the Web for feather grass

  • Many of them display a downy lightness exquisitely lovely, as the common Feather-grass.

    The Romance of Natural History, Second Series|Philip Henry Gosse
  • Feather-grass, the popular name of Stipa pennata, a native of dry places in the south of Europe.

    The New Gresham Encyclopedia|Various
  • That is the "feather-grass;" it is a very rare grass, and has been seldom found wild in this country.

    Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children|W. Houghton

British Dictionary definitions for feather grass

feather grass

noun

a perennial grass, Stipa pennata, native to the steppes of Europe and N Asia, cultivated as an ornament for its feathery inflorescence
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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