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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A grass, Axonopus compressus, of a dense spreading growth, highly valued in the southern United States for pasture and lawns. The name is also applied to the *smut-grass (which see), to Panicum ciliatissimum of Texas, and probably to other grasses of a matted habit.

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