Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of coarse grasses, chiefly American.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a genus of reedlike grasses having spikes crowded in a panicle covered with long silky hairs.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun genus of reedlike grasses having spikes crowded in a panicle covered with long silky hairs

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  • Such good lawn grasses as arundo, pampas-grass, eulalias, and erianthus are perennials and are therefore not included in this discussion.

    Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906

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