wire grass

wire grass

n1. (Plants) any of various grasses, such as Bermuda grass, that have tough wiry roots or rhizomes

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n. a Eurasian meadow grass, Poa compressa, naturalized in North America, having creeping rootstocks and thin stems.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	wire grass - handsome hardy North American grass with foliage turning pale bronze in autumnAndropogon scoparius, broom beard grass, prairie grass, Schizachyrium scopariumbroom grass - any of several grasses of the genus Andropogon; used in broom making
	2.	wire grass - coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhereEleusine indica, yard grass, yardgrass, goose grassEleusine, genus Eleusine - annual and perennial grasses of savannas and upland grasslandsmillet - any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine