Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See needle-grass, 2.
Examples
“But what were those weeds we replaced with needle-and-thread grasses that bent in the wind, flashing glassy stems as fine as pen strokes?”
“Big sagebrush, rabbitbrush, and winterfat occur as well as grasslands of western wheatgrass, green needlegrass, blue grama, and needle-and-thread.”
“Natural prairie vegetation includes needle-and-thread, prairie junegrass, winter fat, and scattered yucca.”
“Potential natural vegetation includes needle-and-thread grass, western wheatgrass, blue grama, Indian ricegrass, and other mixedgrass species.”
“Taller grasses include little bluestem and needle-and-thread grass.”
“Big sagebrush, rabbitbrush, and winterfat occur, as well as grasslands of western wheatgrass, green needlegrass, blue grama, and needle-and-thread.”
“The sagebrush steppe natural vegetation includes western wheatgrass, needle-and-thread, blue grama, Sandberg bluegrass, Junegrass, rabbitbrush, fringed sage, Wyoming big sagebrush, silver and black sagebrush in lowlands, and mountain big sagebrush in the higher elevations.”
“Areas with stabilized sand dunes are dominated by alkali cordgrass, Indian ricegrass, blowout grass, alkali wildrye, and needle-and-thread.”
“Drier sites have an increased amount of needle-and-thread grass (Stipa comata).”
“Outside of Speedy, his ward, and Arrowette, who makes an appearance or two complete with her powder-puff arrows, hairpin arrows, lotion arrows, needle-and-thread arrows, and hairnet arrows, comics being the bastion of Women's Lib that they are.”
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