Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large genus of grasses, distributed over the globe, and valuable especially for pasturage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A genus of grasses, including species called in common language
bent grass . Some of them, as redtop (Agrostis vulgaris ), are valuable pasture grasses.
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- noun
bentgrass
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun annual or perennial grasses cosmopolitan in northern hemisphere: bent grass (so named from `bent' meaning an area of unfenced grassland)
Etymologies
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Examples
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The grass here consisted principally of agrostis, near the river, where the land is occasionally inundated, and of uniola, a little further back, growing in tufts.
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The grass around was very long, and mostly of very coarse descriptions, consisting chiefly of a species of uniola growing in tufts, agrostis with creeping roots and broad blades; the horses seemed to like the uniola best.
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Along the edges of the meadows beneath the pines and throughout the greater part of the Valley tall ribbon-leaved grasses grow in abundance, chiefly bromus, triticum and agrostis.
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This grass, with many others of the genus agrostis, has received the name of bent-grass, by the English; here it is always called herds-grass.
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Above, see those delicate threads of the purple amoret, with its flood of anthers that are nearly yellow; the snowy pyramids of the meadow-sweet, the green tresses of the wild oats, the slender plumes of the agrostis, which we call wind-ear; roseate hopes, decking love's earliest dream and standing forth against the gray surroundings.
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Our domestic animals, that have some liberty, are also possessed of some peculiar traditional knowledge: dogs and cats have been forced into each other's society, though naturally animals of a very different kind, and have hence learned from each other to eat dog's grass (agrostis canina) when they are sick, to promote vomiting.
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