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Definition of wire grass in English: wire grassnoun mass nounAustralian, North American A grass with tough wiry stems. Genera Aristida and Poa, family Gramineae: several species, including the European P. compressa, which has become naturalized in North America Example sentencesExamples - These types grow a bit later on in spring and have a lesser tendency toward sod-formation than English ryegrass and wire grass.
- If one holds a handful of dried wire grass today, the fibers seem brittle; one marvels that they ever could have been used for twine at all.
- A century and a half ago dry prairie, covered with wire grass, carpeted much of the land from Lake Okeechobee southward, but settlers cleared the prairie and planted crops and a variety of exotic grasses.
- Dry prairie consists mainly of grass species, especially little bluestem, splitbeard bluestem, wire grass, bottlebrush threeawn, Indian grass, and slender beardgrass.
- A considerable proportion of total forest area consists of young growth forest and regenerating clear-cut areas, which in our classification are called wire grass pastures.
Definition of wire grass in US English: wire grassnoun North American, Australian A grass with tough wiry stems. Genera Aristida and Poa, family Gramineae: several species, including the European P. compressa, which has become naturalized in North America Example sentencesExamples - A considerable proportion of total forest area consists of young growth forest and regenerating clear-cut areas, which in our classification are called wire grass pastures.
- If one holds a handful of dried wire grass today, the fibers seem brittle; one marvels that they ever could have been used for twine at all.
- These types grow a bit later on in spring and have a lesser tendency toward sod-formation than English ryegrass and wire grass.
- A century and a half ago dry prairie, covered with wire grass, carpeted much of the land from Lake Okeechobee southward, but settlers cleared the prairie and planted crops and a variety of exotic grasses.
- Dry prairie consists mainly of grass species, especially little bluestem, splitbeard bluestem, wire grass, bottlebrush threeawn, Indian grass, and slender beardgrass.
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