meadow grass

meadow grass

n (Plants) a perennial grass, Poa pratensis, that has erect hairless leaves and grows in meadows and similar places in N temperate regions

mead′ow grass`

n. any grass of the genus Poa, esp. P. pratensis, the Kentucky bluegrass. [1250–1300]

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meadow grass - any of various grasses that thrive in the presence of abundant moisturemeadowgrassfamily Graminaceae, family Gramineae, family Poaceae, Graminaceae, Gramineae, grass family, Poaceae - the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar canegrass - narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hayfoxtail, foxtail grass - grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikesmanna grass, sweet grass - any of several moisture-loving grasses of the genus Glyceria having sweet flavor or odorAgrostis alba, Poa nemoralis, wood meadowgrass - slender European grass of shady places; grown also in northeastern America and temperate Asia