Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In entomology, a British collectors' name for a noctuid moth, Tapinostola elymi.
- noun A coarse grass of the genus Elymus, belonging to the tribe Hordeeæ, having the inflorescence in simple spikes, very rarely branched, the spikelets two or three together, and the glumes two, both on the same side of the spikelet, without awns, inclosing from one to seven florets.
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Examples
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Characteristic sandy seashore plants are sea sandwort Honckenya peploides and lyme-grass Elymus mollis.
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All along the coast ran a row of sand-dunes with lyme-grass on their tops.
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Only the yellow sand along the shore remained as it was; it has no flowers to deck itself with, and lyme-grass is all its finery.
Tales of Two Countries Alexander Lange Kielland 1877
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Suddenly, from one of these where there was no lyme-grass to keep down the sand, there arose as it were a thick smoke.
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