Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of numerous, usually clump-forming grasses of the genus Sporobolus, having seeds that drop or shoot from their hulls when ripe.
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- noun Any member of the
genus Sporobolus ofbunchgrasses .
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- noun a grass of the genus Sporobolus
Etymologies
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Examples
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Trying to get that look out front beneath a weeping birch by using prairie dropseed, which is actually hardy here.
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Several varieties of grass are called dropseed, but only stangury is drop-piss.
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From a distance, pockets of orangish-red and brown soil were laced with drought-resistant tallgrass; blue grama, fescue, prairie dropseed, and the slender green stems of quack grass.
No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010
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From a distance, pockets of orangish-red and brown soil were laced with drought-resistant tallgrass; blue grama, fescue, prairie dropseed, and the slender green stems of quack grass.
No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010
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The sandsage association includes grasses such as big sandreed, little bluestem, sand dropseed, and sand bluestem.
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Historical vegetation was dominated by little bluestem, big bluestem, yellow Indiangrass, and tall dropseed.
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Shifting sand is mostly devoid of vegetation while soils on stable sand blankets support drought-tolerant plants including Indian ricegrass, sand dropseed, yucca, and blackbrush.
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While sand sagebrush and prairie grasses such as sand dropseed, sand bluestem, and big sandreed may create a continuous plant cover in portions of Ecoregion 25j, the shrub and forb cover may be sparse in dune areas.
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In mixed-grass steppe, additional species include green needlegrass, sand dropseed, slender wheatgrass, galleta, and purple three-awn.
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Little bluestem, yellow Indiangrass, and tall dropseed were once dominant grasses.
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