squaw grass

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1.squaw grass - plant of western North America having woody rhizomes and tufts of stiff grasslike basal leaves and spikes of creamy white flowersXerophyllum tenax, bear grassliliaceous plant - plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tubergenus Xerophyllum, Xerophyllum - small genus of North American herbs having grasslike basal leaves: squaw grass; sometimes placed in family Melanthiaceae