Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The grass Sesleria cœrulea.

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Examples

  • Gray ledge and moor-grass and pale bloom of light5

    Child-Dancers 1919

  • This promontory brings to one's memory the mounds of ashes at Vesuvius; for here one sinks at every step, the wiry moor-grass not being able to bind together the loose sand.

    The True Story of My Life Andersen, Hans Christian, 1805-1875 1847

  • This promontory brings to one's memory the mounds of ashes at Vesuvius; for here one sinks at every step, the wiry moor-grass not being able to bind together the loose sand.

    True Story of My Life 1840

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